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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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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