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Tomorrow’s homes today

In 1961, Sir William Parker Morris published Homes for Today and Tomorrow, this became the guide to building new social homes over the next two decades. Just as it is said that much of sociology is a debate with the ghost of Marx, much of the current debate about housing standards is couched in their relationship to ideas set out in 1961.

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Gauging the true costs of affordable housing

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Why housing associations have few friends

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Devolution’s age-old problem

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With full disclosure banking could be a race to the top

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Passing the buck without the bucks

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Beyond austerity – where we might go and where we should not go

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Two futures for independent funders

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Raising the volume on poverty and inequality in cities

On the back of an ever increasing devolution of powers, cities are getting a good press. A buzzy narrative portrays them as beacons of innovation, creativity and general wellbeing. However, there is a less indulgently supported and quieter story, in which the same cities are also crucibles of poverty and inequality.