Good Local Economics

Power to the people: evidencing true social value

Only by talking and listening to those whose lives they are hoping to change can housing organisations understand the ‘true’ social value of their work, say Jenny Rouse and Matt Bowen

In the current economic environment, housing associations are making difficult decisions on how to spend limited resources in communities decimated by public spending cuts and rising inequalities.

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Can councils build their way out of the housing crisis?

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A localised approach to the living wage

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How to get maximum social value from procurement

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Local ‘super hubs’ proposed to support families

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The price of not paying a living wage

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A living wage is just the start

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Councils must make their contracts living wage

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Bristol: A city ripe for systems change?

‘One of the biggest challenges facing cities today is that no single organisation has complete control over the solutions to increase our resilience to the broad range of challenges we face’