This interview is part of our three-part piece on Women in Housing. You can find the background information to these interviews in our ‘Women in
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Interview with Jenny Danson
This interview is part of our three-part piece on Women in Housing. You can find the background information to these interviews in our ‘Women in
Interview with Aileen Evans
This is part of our WISH series of innovative women in housing. This interview features Aileen Evans, CEO of Grand Union Housing, who gives us
Introduction to the WISH and SHM Innovative Women Series
The social housing sector has a long history of innovative women making a difference. The earliest and most well-known example is Octavia Hill. She played
The Green Right to Buy/Right to Affordable Rent
In this long read, Martin Farley lays out what he thinks needs to be done to make housing truly affordable AND sustainable. Martin is a
History of Social Housing: Where Does Social Purpose Fit in?
Please do not get me wrong. The title might suggest I disagree with social purpose, which I do not. I wholeheartedly believe that social housing
Should we own stuff?
A lot of people own a lot of things, from socks to mugs, to phones to sofas. But, is owning lots of stuff something that is still fit for the 21st century and beyond?
Caroline Duvier asks this while thinking about reusing stuff, furniture poverty, offering the option of a furnished tenancy in social housing, and much more in this article!
Duo-living: A different approach to the housing crisis from the Netherlands
Stichting Statiegeld op Jeugd is a Dutch initiative that is seeking to combat the housing crisis in the Netherlands. They do so by proposing a housing ‘format’ where existing homes, mostly occupied by ’empty nesters’ are split up into two homes, allowing the older generation to stay in their own homes AND create more social housing out of existing properties!
Social Housing White Paper – An environmental angle by Suss Housing
Suss Housing have created ‘SHIFT’; a sustainability standard for the housing sector.
It is an independent assessment and accreditation scheme that demonstrates organisations are delivering against challenging environmental targets. They have kindly shared their view on the Social Housing White Paper from an environmental angle.
Northern Ireland’s housing authority will be reclassified as a mutual – but will it also be privatised?
The Minister for Communities at Stormont recently delivered a major statement on housing policy which was then lauded from almost all sides.
In this article, University of Birmingham Lecturer and researcher Stewart Smyth takes a deeper look at what the Minister said and argues that there is an intention to privatise the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
qlinker: Digitizing for minimal human action
By: Marcel Vogel (qlinker): About three years ago, qlinker was presented as the first digital housing association in the Netherlands. With the experience of a
Why it’s never only just about housing
By: Caroline Duvier @caroline_duvier Over the past half a year or so, I started to read a lot of non-fiction books concerned with our current
Can Organising the Environment Undermine Crime and Urban Decay? Ideas from the Netherlands
This article explores a Rotterdam area partnerships approach to organized crime/urban decay, and includes overviews of new understandings around this topic that will be of
Low-Income Housing and labeling/labeling – A Report from Pakistan
How we talk about social housing, market it and find new funders to build more of it is not a straightforward thing. Language matters, and has a lot more power and influence than people think. Sana Malik, a PhD student at Universiti Sains Malaysia, shares with us how language matters in the case of social housing in Pakistan.
Back to normal? How to build a better Britain – what we can learn from the Germans
By Maureen Corcoran Recent press reports show Germany has been much better than the UK in dealing with the Covid –19 virus. From more testing
Dutch Works Councils – an extra layer of governance
By Peter Mekers In The Netherlands we have a long history of social housing organisations since 1852. Just under a 100 years later – in