Universal Credit: time to treat property as the investment our society sees it?
There has been much Twitter-chat in recent days about the costs and impact of Universal Credit. Many calls have been made to the Chancellor to provide additional funding in the forthcoming budget, in order to reduce the impacts on those likely to see substantial falls in their total income. The latest indications are that the…
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Back to the Future: private renting to help the homeless
I am feeling very Marty McFly at present – for the last year I feel as though I have been living through the nightmarish world of Back to the Future II overseen by the narcissistic, thin skinned rather idiotic bully Biff Tannan – presiding over a community going to the dogs. Specifically, in this last…
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Warm Words and Some Cold Reality
It genuinely is a good thing to have a serving Prime Minister come to a social housing conference and extol the virtues of and provide the promise of more funding to enable more social and affordable rented homes to be built. The fact that Theresa May’s attendance at this week’s National Housing Federation Summit was…
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What is factory made housing?
Commonweal Pods to feature in New London Architecture’s research paper.
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Waiting for the Housing Buses
This week the Government showed their hand on rough sleeping and social housing. In what could be described as a sensible series of coordinated announcements, the Government has released both its Rough Sleeping Strategy, (to tackle one of the most extreme manifestations of the housing crisis) followed the very next day by the long awaited…
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LivShare: Co-Living without the expensive add-ons
LivShare creator Andy Redfearn shares his views on the concept and what he hopes to achieve with the model
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