Housing

High hopes

As cuts start to bite and public services and regeneration funds are withdrawn, housing associations are picking up the extra demand. But can they, and should they, fill the gap in regeneration provision? Clare Goff and Austin Macauley investigate

When the Accord Group of housing associations wanted to ensure local supplies of the timber frames it uses to build new housing in Redditch, it decided to open its own factory. Based in Beechdale, the factory employs 30 staff and will supply timber frames for 250 homes in its first year of business.

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Shapps’ fiddling won’t solve the real crisis

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Putting young people at the heart of solutions

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Planning for people or for profit?

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Better connected

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Dispatches from the frontline

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Beyond the housing market crisis

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Cash in hand

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Place does matter

The links between poverty and place are revealed in a three-year study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. JRF programme manager Alison Jarvis explains its importance

I live three miles from my birthplace, round the corner from my sister, a short car ride from my mum and within walking distance (in nice weather!) of my childhood address. I moved – briefly – for higher education, but I came home; I can totally relate to attachment to place.