Housing

Community-led regen is not enough

We asked six experts to give their verdicts on the events of 2012 and suggest ideas for progression in 2013. In our third instalment, John. P Houghton argues that neighbourhood resilience programmes need to be combined with broader structural change

2012 was a year of transition for urban development in the UK. At the start of the year we saw the terminal indications of the passing of the old regeneration model, while the end of the year has witnessed the clearest signs yet of a new approach to reviving the poorest neighbourhoods.

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The regeneration machine

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Housing associations can drive the localist agenda

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Aggregating poverty: cheap homes in cheap neighbourhoods

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Explaining the Community Infrastructure Levy

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Sustainable procurement in social housing: are we there yet?

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Musical beds

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The real victims of London’s broken housing market

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Could Baugruppe be the answer to the UK’s housing challenge?

I’ve long been a fan of self-build housing, having grown up in a house my father designed and built. I was reminded of his entrepreneurial zeal this week following the announcement of DCLG’s NewBuy Guarantee initiative, which confirmed our reliance on a developer-led model of housing design and construction.