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How far can the CLT model go?

A key prerequisite of CLTs is that their membership is open to everyone in the ...

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Should housing associations build homes or neighbourhoods?

Housing associations have expanded their brief within communities and now play key roles in tackling ...

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

The regeneration machine

Of course most government schemes are regeneration by slow death. The one I was involved ...

Communities Housing Regeneration

Sustainable procurement in social housing: are we there yet?

The social housing sector’s approach to sustainable procurement can be insular and driven by regulation. ...

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Musical beds

Of all the agencies working to combat worklessness and other social ills, housing associations already ...

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

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

At a time when the supply of private investment in house building is at a ...

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Mixed communities and right to buy: bang to rights?

We actually know very little about the effect of right to buy beyond a massive ...

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

Just build some bloody council houses!

A government that combines drastic benefit cuts and reducing public housing stock with a massive ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

Want genuine community-led regeneration? Learn from what HMR tells us

It’s vital we learn from programmes like housing market renewal if we’re serious about putting ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

My old house – a snapshot of the post-regeneration landscape

John Houghton revisits the problem of empty homes and calls for imaginative local solutions as ...