Features

A welter of new initiatives is on the way to help key workers like nurses find affordable accommodation. However welcome they may be, are they tackling the real issue? Julian Birch reports

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The government wants social housing developers to cut construction costs by ten per cent a year. But will the whole process simply repeat the mistakes of the 1960s? Rosalind Bayley reports on the Egan revolution

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ROOF published its first issue in 1975 as a Labour government started to think about its housing green paper. As ROOF marks its 25th birthday, and another Labour green paper holds centre stage, how much has really changed? Peter Malpass takes a 25-year view on current developments

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Gurbux Singh, is soon to chair the Commission for Racial Equality. A former housing director, he has clear views on how social landlords fit into the post-Macpherson race relations agenda. Interview: John Goodwin

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If the housing green paper targets one place above all, it must be London. The crisis in affordable housing is clear to anyone who’s not an owner in the current house price boom. And another crisis remains: of long-term social exclusion and chronic underinvestment in the housing stock. In London the problems so often sit side by side. Report: Julian Blake

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Quality and choice: a decent home for all is Labour’s first foray into major housing legislation for almost a quarter of a century. Its comprehensive analysis of the problems and policy opportunities could produce detailed changes for every sector of the housing world. But what is the big picture? Tim Dwelly analyses the thinking behind the major new proposals

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