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Community-owned or merely ‘based’ in the community?

Early research findings suggest the cuts are impacting on the sustainability of community-led housing programmes.

Public sector cuts are threatening the resilience of community-led regeneration, according to Rob Rowlands & Mike Beazley

Cast your mind back ten years. Labour ministers were trumpeting the investment in community-based organisations as the way forward for embedded housing-led regeneration.

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It’s time to dispel a few myths around outsourcing

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Making sense of the white paper’s finer details

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Open door policy

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The case for community budgeting is growing

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Public service reform: people power or privatisation?

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There’s a great opportunity to boost the green economy – we can’t bottle it

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Cash in hand

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Why green growth won’t transform the economy

Green growth is a myth. Because it ignores the social, political and personal dimensions of sustainability, it can never cut deep enough into the structures of self and society to secure solutions to the crises that we face, says Andre Reichel.

In discussions of the future of economic growth, ‘business as usual’ is not an option. The alternative, say many, is ‘green growth’: growth that is resource-efficient, low-carbon and socially-inclusive. In this line of thinking, green growth is the key to managing climate change, bringing eco-friendly development to emerging economies, renewing economic structures in industrialized nations, and creating more jobs to employ a rising population.