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What works: coping with the student invasion
01 January 2024
Four colleges, 27,000 students and pockets of the city fast turning into student ghettos. Welcome to Cardiff, where colleges have left the private rented sector to cope with an explosion in student numbers. Alison Benjamin reports
What works: student housing
01 January 2024
Large concentrations of students have an impact on an area. First-time buyers are priced out as professional 'student landlords' move in. Once well-kept family homes become rundown student hovels. With shared student housing set to be included within a broarder definition of houses in multiple occupation, and a compulsory licensing scheme for HMO's expected, local authorities are starting to assess the impact and ask what can be done. Report: Alison Benjamin
Scotlands homeless figures double those in England
01 January 2024
Homelessness is proportionally fifty per cent higher in Scotland than in England according to the findings of a recent study published by Scottish Homes, writes Hal Pawson
Too much pressure
01 January 2024
Britain's housing benefit system is in crisis, with hundreds of thousands of claimants suffering intolerable delays. Over-regulation, combined with shockingly poor levels of service and disastrous local privatisations have conspired to push the system to the point of collapse. Will the government now act? Julian Blake reports
Model choice?
01 January 2024
Widely seen as the future for social housing, choice-based allocations started in the Dutch city of Delft. Nicola Bacon reports from the Netherlands on the principles behind the system, while Tim Brown analyses progress in England and Wales
What works: putting the record straight
01 November 2023
Castle Vale, once synonymous with car crime and drugs is shaking off its no-go tag. The Housinbg Action Trust has made image management central to the Birmingham estate's regeneration. Alison Benjamin reports
What works: now for the good news
01 November 2023
Years after an estate is turned around, its bad name sticks. That's why challenging a poor reputation should be integral to regeneration. Alison Benjamin reports
What works: image management
01 November 2023
Cities market themselves to investors and tourists. Developers promote new riverside apartments. Why shouldn't councils and regeneration agencies publicise housing estates? Without some kind of image management, a bad name sticks. However much money is poured into physical, social and economic regeneration, residents are left to suffer the long-term consequences. Report: Alison Benjamin
Checking the bill
01 November 2023
Scotland’s housing bill won widespread support when it was published in July, but four months on the key housing groups still have concerns. ROOF brought together six key players to thrash out the detail in a roundtable discussion chaired by Douglas Robertson
Village voice
01 November 2023
The imminent rural white paper will propose changes to the way housing is provided in the countryside. But will the people who live there notice any difference? As new government initiatives begin to make an impact in rural areas, Tim Dwelly tests reactions on Cornwall’s Lizard peninsula.
