Which way now for social housing?

ISSUE 519, MARCH 2014

*SPECIAL FOCUS ON HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS*

EDITORIAL: CAN SOCIAL LANDLORDS REVIVE THE BOLD VISION OF THE 70s?

IN FOCUS: SHOULD HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS BUILD HOMES OR NEIGHBOURHOODS?
Housing associations have expanded their brief within communities and now play key roles in tackling poverty and worklessness. Can – and should – they become neighbourhood leaders, asks Austin Macauley

PROFILE: Q & A WITH MATT LEACH: USING TECHNOLOGY TO REINVENT THE HOUSING SECTOR
Matt Leach, chief executive of Hact, joined the housing sector at a time of huge change. He talks to New Start about how technology is helping social housing providers understand their social value as well as maintain their bottom line

LOCAL WORK: HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS BEARING THE BRUNT OF WELFARE REFORM
As government attempts to reduce the benefits bill through welfare reform, housing associations are left dealing with the fallout, as Alex Stevenson reports

INTERNATIONAL WORK: AN EXPERIMENT IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING IN RAPIDLY GENTRIFYING SAN FRANCISCO
The Hope SF project is proving that low income housing and gentrification are not incompatible. 

IDEAS FOR CHANGE: HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS
Housing providers are responding to the need to ‘reinvent everything’ with innovative schemes that join the dots between housing and healthcare and help tenants get online and get back to work. We profile five of the best.