Tag: Housing
Councils are grappling with the challenges caused by the housing crisis. It’s often difficult to secure local development, navigate conflicts of interest and balance public input with investment. Community engagement can be adversarial and shared solutions beyond reach. But...
19th October, 2022
Listening to communities can unlock co-benefits.
22nd November, 2021
Climate change • Community Power • Housing • Research Reports
It’s not NIMBYs preventing housing being built – it’s a system that creates conflict by design.
17th November, 2021
Giving councils and communities more power to drive new development will finally start to solve a housing crisis made worse by decades of government reform, finds new research. Housing Beyond Markets and State, by think tank New Local argues...
17th November, 2021
We're building under half of the new homes we need, while millions live in unsuitable and overcrowded accommodation. What if involving communities in planning could succeed where decades of reforms have failed? Pawda Tjoa on how councils can construct...
17th November, 2021
Luca Tiratelli on why the way we define 'community' and 'underused land' will determine the success of the government's new Right to Regenerate.
8th April, 2021
How do you try to solve a problem like homelessness? By working with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Kirklees Council focused on asking people what they wanted to achieve. How a community-led and ‘asset-based’ approach made a difference.
15th February, 2021
How could a community-led alternative to England’s current housing system could deliver more, and better, housing?
12th November, 2020
How would a new planning and housing system work, one not based on top-down nor market-based approaches?
29th September, 2020
A new Government White Paper envisages radical reform for planning. But, while it hints at a community-led approach, it also sets rules and targets to be imposed by national government. John Myers of the YIMBY Alliance sets out how...
6th August, 2020
Community Power • Housing • Place building • Planning • Public Services
This report focuses on learning from international examples to prevent and eradicate rough sleeping. It proposes that the UK and devolved governments work with mid-sized cities and places to trial a series of policies, initiatives and collaborations with a...
25th November, 2019
The number of people spending the night on the streets is increasing all over the world, as nations struggle with their own housing crises or have difficulties funding the multi-agency support services needed for individuals to overcome the complex...
25th November, 2019
How does the design of the places we live, work and play shape our health and sense of belonging?
29th October, 2019
Community Power • Design • Housing • Impact • Innovation In-depth • Members • Place building • Transport
The delivery of new housing in the current economic and political climate is more challenging than ever. The issue of housing supply, particularly the demand for more affordable housing, continues to dominate the news agenda. So how do local...
6th August, 2018
Exploring the pros and cons of joint ventures, wholly-owned housing delivery companies and council-led delivery.
29th July, 2018
Community Power • Housing • Innovation In-depth • Members • Partnerships
Implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and using this opportunity to innovate.
20th July, 2018
Community Power • Homelessness • Housing • Members • Public Services
Factors as varied as employment, transport, housing, and green space all affect people’s health. And over the last four years, councils have undertaken a variety of innovative work with local partners to improve public health outcomes. But challenges around...
5th June, 2018
Health and social care • Housing • Planning • Strategy and leadership
Recent data on the Government’s Right to Buy (RtB) housing policy has cast further doubt on the initiative’s feasibility. With councils having been unable to channel the resources provided from the sale of housing stock on new homes, as...
10th May, 2018
Homelessness is a growing issue for local authorities – both rough sleeping and helping those in precarious housing situations. Since 2010, rough sleeping in England has increased by 168 per cent and the number of households in temporary accommodation...
9th April, 2018
This report explores the dividing lines that drove 2016’s decision to Leave. This report reveals the Brexit vote was a visible expression of the diverse economic trajectories, experiences and identities in England. This report, carried out by the University...
23rd January, 2018
Brexit • Housing • Inclusive Growth • Levelling Up • Policy • Strategy and leadership
In September 2017, the Government announced an additional £2bn investment in affordable housing, and stated it will encourage councils and housing associations to build homes for social rent in parts of the country where the need is greatest. Other...
11th December, 2017
To help councils build the hundreds of thousands of new homes that are needed, NLGN has published a practical guide, Building Homes, Growing Communities, to help ensure that the houses built lead to high quality communities that prioritise design,...
23rd March, 2017
Housing • Inclusive Growth • Planning • Strategy and leadership
If solving the housing crisis was a simple case of fixing legislation or introducing incentives for builders, the housing crisis would have been fixed ages ago, or never reached this magnitude at all.
10th February, 2017
This was not a housing white paper that would see the chancellor in a hard hat being gleefully greeted by a happy major house builder. The narrative is markedly different to that of previous governments, and lays responsibility for...
8th February, 2017
Homelessness receives a lot of media and policy attention this time of year, as the effects of sleeping rough are all too apparent. As it gets colder, and floods and snow are frequent, councils will be working hard with...
25th January, 2017
In the spring of 2016, NLGN and Capsticks LLP hosted a roundtable discussion on ways in which councils and housing associations can collaborate to build more homes. This paper is the outcome of this discussion and reflects the debate...
2nd June, 2016
NLGN have published a report that revealed London’s boroughs could build a new generation of council houses, avoid disrupting the lives of poorer citizens and save money for the Exchequer in the process. This could allow them to build...
16th December, 2011
Abusing social housing should change from a civil to a criminal offence 50,000 properties estimated to be unlawfully sub-let Call backed by the Chartered Institute of Housing Savings of £750m could be made by recovering all unlawfully sub-let properties...
9th March, 2010