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Book review: Taking Power Back

We live in turbulent times. Post financial crash, we have had a prolonged depression and ...

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Housing – a multidimensional crisis

It is easy to think about the housing crisis as if it were a single ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Local areas should embrace English devolution – but on their own terms

Government has made an offer, and I believe local authority political leaders should positively embrace ...

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Keeping the pressure on for more devolution

The current level of devolved power and resource cannot be the fixed deal and must ...

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A healthy economy

Progressive economic development has the local population’s health and wellbeing at its heart, says Marvin ...

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Why housing associations have few friends

There has always been a strand of opinion that saw housing associations as undemocratic and ...

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The case for fairness commissions is growing

The consequences of welfare reforms, structural changes to both the public sector and industry, the ...

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It’s not risky business if you apply the Ashford model

I was eager to share the experiences we’ve had in Ashford in adopting a more ...

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Gentrification is a social ill. Here’s five ways to combat it in Bristol

Gentrification more often is driven by and is an expression of the relative powerless of ...

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Devolution’s age-old problem

Despite cynicism from people of all political persuasions, George Osborne has, since helping to steer ...