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Gauging the true costs of affordable housing

The announcement in the last budget of a 1% decrease in rents has presented a ...

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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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Rewarding meantime use on major development sites

In the time between the first property is acquired and whole development area has been ...

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What’s the big difference about Big Local?

I recently chaired a roundtable discussion about enabling residents to transform their communities for the ...

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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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Devolution’s age-old problem

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

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Leading the fight for fairness

Fairness Commissions have helped pushed the issues of inequality and poverty onto the agenda. But ...

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Solving the skills mismatch

We are facing a huge challenge to keep pace with skills requirements of rapidly developing ...

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The Futurebuilders story must be told if we’re to open the door to new social investors

I wanted to tell the story of Futurebuilders because I think it is important that ...

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Placemaking must be framed by fairness and equity

In many ways it is not surprising that the business of creating good places to ...