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The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on those who provide care – from frontline workers in the NHS and our care homes to those unpaid carers, who, behind closed doors, work tirelessly each day to look after their loved ones. But while their vital importance has come under the spotlight, so too has the need for us for us to do more to support them.
By Wendy Hayhurst, CEO, Community Housing Industry Association Here, down under in Australia, after thinking we had beaten back the virus, we are again anxious. Melbourne is in stage four lockdown; Sydney’s new case count is worrying; and our internal…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. The Planning White Paper, published last week, promises radical reform “unlike anything we have seen since the Second World War” to create “a whole new planning system for England”, a system that will encourage “sustainable,…
By Helen Greig, NHF 86% of the cost of a new home is on long-term maintenance, 98% of new-home buyers report defects, and 24% of homebuyers would actively avoid newbuild as a result. We think that as a country we…
By Paul Malone, MovingSoon.co.uk Reducing void properties is at the top of the list of Housing Associations, Councils and other housing providers. They want to make sure they become more efficient through effective service delivery. So what is meant by…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. So, I attended HQN’s virtual annual conference last week. From my past experience of Zoom and Microsoft Teams meet-ups I was expecting a rather clunky, disjointed experience but it was actually very smoothly put together…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. The English Housing Survey has just released its latest figures for 2018/19 and there are some worrying figures for our sector. If you are not familiar with the EHS it started in 1967 as “a…
By Ruth Arnott, Customer Engagement Business Partner at Anchor Hanover As England’s largest provider of housing and care for older people, Anchor Hanover ensures that dignity and respect are central to the way we work. We are committed to listening…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. Ignore the hype. This week’s “Rooseveltian” New Deal is no such thing. The Prime Minister’s “build, build, build” reboot of the economy amounts to no more than £5bn of existing money, and even reduces the…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. Planning reform has been a constant in government thinking over the past ten years. If only, the thinking seems to go, the process was simpler, faster, and less bureaucratic then it would deliver the homes…
By Ali Akbor OBE, Chief Executive of Unity Homes & Enterprise, and Secretary/Treasurer of BME National The need for BME-led housing associations is sometimes questioned. But the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement is a reminder of why the…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. Forty years ago I wrote my degree dissertation on the links between ethnic minority communities and poor housing in London. I visited Islington’s council offices to study their small area census data, and inputted the…
