There has been rapid growth in the number of local authorities setting up housing companies. Generally called local housing companies (LHCs), this wave of municipal entrepreneurship has huge potential. From…
Month: January 2017
Local Authority Right to Buy: Using, not losing your RTB receipts
Liz Anderson breaks down the rules governing how local authorities can use right to buy (RTB) receipts. The Government introduced a new RTB policy in March 2012 “Reinvigorating RTB”. This…
Devolution – Affordable Housing programmes. London first, more to follow.
In November 2016, the Mayor of London released Homes for Londoners: Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 funding guidance. It outlines how £3bn of government funding will be used to deliver 90,000…
New Year, New Village
Early in the New Year we saw the Government’s announcement of the location of 14 new ‘Garden Villages’. These will stretch across England, from Cumbria to Devon and £6 million…
We are the builders. Now is the time for the sector to stand up and be counted
During the festive break, Radio 4 had a series of experts compare last year with other years, because 2016 felt so momentous and unexpected that it needed some analysis of…
Managing your talent pool
The author and business consultant, Jim Collins, in his book “Good to Great” says …. ‘People are not your most important asset. The RIGHT people are. Get the right people…