Tag: Housing

How could a community-led alternative to England’s current housing system could deliver more, and better, housing?

12th November, 2020

community • community paradigm • Housing • Ostrom

How would a new planning and housing system work, one not based on top-down nor market-based approaches?

29th September, 2020

Housing • Infrastructure • Neighbourhood planning • Planning • Public transport

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

Homelessness • Housing • Rough Sleeping • Strategy and leadership

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

Homelessness • Housing • planning and homelessness • Public Services

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

Housing • planning and homelessness

Exploring the pros and cons of joint ventures, wholly-owned housing delivery companies and council-led delivery.

29th July, 2018

Housing • Innovation In-depth • Members

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

Built environment • Greater Manchester • Health • 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

Housing • planning and homelessness

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

Homelessness • Housing • planning and homelessness

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 • planning and homelessness • 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

Housing • Planning • planning and homelessness

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 • planning and homelessness • 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

Housing • Leadership • planning and homelessness • Strategy and leadership

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

Housing • planning and homelessness • Politics

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

Homelessness • Housing • planning and homelessness • Public Services

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

Housing • Planning • planning and homelessness