All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 816
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Government urged for cash to replace SRB
The government urgently needs to find extra money to support regeneration projects that will otherwise close because of the demise of the Single Regeneration Budget. That’s according to a report by the Urban Forum, the trade body representing regeneration practitioners.
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Archive TitlesKitemark launched to calm lenders' fears on prefab quality
A kitemark for homes manufactured off-site was launched on Monday.
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How to … run a job broker scheme
Kate Freeman gets advice on helping people with mental health issues back into work
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Broadland supervised as Corporation steps in to push through reforms
Regulators finally took action to sort out Broadland Housing Association's "dysfunctional board" last Friday after months during which it refused to reform itself.
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JRF suggests police boards to oversee neighbourhood security
Private security guards, neighbourhood wardens and community support police officers should be coordinated by regional policing boards, according to a report from social research body the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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Scotland’s only BME landlord saved by transfers
Scotland’s one black and minority-ethnic housing association has been saved from collapse by pledges of funding and new stock.
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Archive TitlesBlitzin' squad
Paying teenagers to clean their estates keeps them off the streets and makes the neighbourhood look better, as Richmond Housing Partnership's Paintbrush Initiative shows. Kate Freeman spent a day with the wash street kids.
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Benefits given…
Three housing associations have done their own trials of the government's new idea of paying housing benefits directly to the tenants, rather than to the landlord. In all three cases, rent arrears rocketed.
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Skills review, round two: Egan hits back at 'codswallop' claims
Sir John Egan has joined battle with critics of his skills review, saying the professions are "obsessed by process" and "unable to see the wood for the trees".
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Archive TitlesSovereign is second to buy back own bonds
Sovereign Housing Association has signed a £50m refinancing agreement that involved buying back its own bonds.
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Archive TitlesCouncils in last-ditch bid to save asylum families
2500 asylum seekers face eviction on Saturday unless lawyers find way around benefit rules
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… as Lord Rogers is asked for ideas to squeeze in more homes
Celebrated architect Lord Richard Rogers has been asked to test the possibility of squeezing even more homes into the Thames Gateway’s London section.
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Archive Titles'I'm a loner. If i'd had friends around, the drug dealers wouldn't have tried to turn my flat into a crack den'
When crack dealers are looking for somewhere to set up shop, vulnerable people and their homes can be easy prey. Chloe Stothart reports on a south London flat that was turned into a crack den while the tenant was still living there, how it's being reclaimed and what you can ...
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Don't take no-go for an answer
When racial harassment forces tenants out of their homes and creates a no-go area for BME tenants, the legal system can help to turn the situation round
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Archive TitlesAshford scheme newtered for another year
It had the chancellor's cash, the prime minister's support and the deputy prime minister's steely determination – it seemed nothing could stop the Communities Plan.
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Waltham Forest gets lowest rating of any first- or second-round ALMO
Waltham Forest's arm's-length management organisation has been awarded the lowest inspection score of any of the first- and second-round ALMOs.
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ALMO bids to sell its services outside local authority area
Derby Homes also on brink of second deal to manage and maintain property in home city
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Barker won't be enough for London, says ALG
It would take 40 years to build just half of the homes needed in London even if all of the extra homes demanded by the Barker Report are built, the capital's councils have warned.
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St Pancras and Griffin merge to aid preferred partner hopes
Two west London registered social landlords have merged in a bid to expand their development programmes.