A day in the life
Jon Land
May 2013
Housing professionals are facing significant challenges on a daily basis as we found out when we asked the five finalists in the 2013 Young Leaders Award to describe a typical day in their working lives.
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Tractor Boy in the fast lane
Brian Church
May 2013
Peabody’s Steve Howlett has risen to the top of one of the oldest housing associations in England. So naturally our insolent interviewer Brian Church quizzed the chief executive about his strange but undying passion for Ipswich Town Football Club.
Swimming against the tide
Paul Coleman
May 2013
When it comes to building new social housing, the London Borough of Islington is refusing to play by the Government’s rules. And, as Paul Coleman finds out, its success is a result of local land deals and collaboration with housing associations.
Learning the lessons from Lakanal
Anita Pati
May 2013
As the housing sector digests the findings of the £2 million inquest into the Lakanal House tower block fire, Anita Pati asks what lessons landlords can learn to ensure similar tragedies don’t happen again.
Housing’s Best man
Brian Church
April 2013
Lord Richard Best has earned himself a reputation as the scourge of the Coalition’s welfare reforms, repeatedly locking horns with Lord Freud in a series of heavyweight but curiously entertaining debates in the Upper House. Excellent preparation, then, for an encounter with our intrepid interviewer Brian Church.
'Grant who?'
Kate Murray
April 2013
Lessons in leadership
Jon Land
April 2013
Our five finalists have just returned from the National Housing Federation Leaders’ Forum and Exhibition where they met and heard some of the sector’s most respected figures. We asked them what they had learnt.
Stretching their arms:The modern ALMO gets fit for the future
Neil Merrick
April 2013
The past few years have been tough for housing’s arms length management organisations. In these austere times many councils have questioned their usefulness, forcing ALMOs to prove they have more than one string to their bow – or face the chop. Neil Merrick reports.
The perfect storm: ‘There will be an almighty crash in the autumn’
Jules Birch
March 2013
The bedroom tax, the benefit cap, the new council tax regime and a range of other welfare cuts are upon us. Throw in cuts to legal aid, advice services and the state of the UK economy and we’re faced with two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane. Jules Birch (photo) dons his sowester to gauge opinion from organisations trying to navigate choppy waters.
High Fliers
Jon Land
March 2013
In the final instalment of our High Fliers series, in conjunction with Baker Tilly, Kate Murray talks to the chief executives of two very different housing providers from opposite ends of the United Kingdom. What they do have in common, however, is plenty of innovative ideas.
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