Housing 21 pays tribute to Britain's oldest man
Wendy Gornicki
April 2013
Britain's oldest man, Reg Dean, died in January at the age of 110. For the last few years of his extraordinary life he lived at a Housing 21 extra care scheme in Derbyshire.
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Sword-brandishing tenant evicted and jailed
Ian Moreton
February 2013
Coventry-based Whitefriars Housing was forced to act swiftly when a tenant's behaviour put the lives of staff and residents at risk.
Council bars couple from their own ‘putrid’ home
Anonymous
November 2012
Brent Council has fought a two-year battle to remove a couple from their own home after their hoarding of rubbish and cats became a public health risk.
Affordable housing in the Chancellor’s back yard
Tim Pinder
October 2012
When the Chancellor opened a new housing development in his Cheshire constituency, Peaks & Plains Housing Trust spotted an opportunity to make the case for investment in social housing.
Homeless families strike it lucky on former Grunwick dispute site
Gerry Doherty
September 2012
Brent Housing Partnership (BHP) has built new homes for homeless families on the site of a former film processing factory that was at the centre of a landmark 1970s industrial dispute.
Housing association garden dug up as police search for human remains
Steve Mandaluff
July 2012
A murder inquiry brought police to the front door of a property belonging to Town & Country Housing Group in the quiet Kent town of Tunbridge Wells.
Council tenant evicted after keeping pig in home
Graeme Walton
June 2012
Derby Homes attracted the attention of the world’s media when they evicted a tenant who was using his home as a pig sty for his Gloucester Old Spot
