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Posted 8th September 201714th September 2017

Taking Stock report – challenge, change and innovation in the ALMO sector

Altair today launched its report “Taking Stock” .. a research report exploring challenge, change and innovation in the ALMO sector – download your copy here.

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    • ►Mar
      • Are these new models of housing delivery the future?
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    • ►Feb
      • Brexit – opportunities for the sector?
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    • ►Jan
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      • How do you like your Brexit? Unscrambled
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  • ►2018
    • ►Dec
      • 2018: A Year in Pictures, Headlines & Numbers.
      • Libor: 10 tips for reducing exposure
      • What’s going on at the Social Housing Annual Conference on 5th December 2018?
      • How is Development and Property Management Changing for the Housing Sector?
    • ►Nov
      • The Pace of Digital Transformation is Slow: What’s Holding the Sector Back?
      • Data is The New Oil
      • Housing in 2025: What if….?
      • Is government creating a sustainable housing policy framework?
    • ►Oct
      • Don’t be caught out by the dissolution of Libor
      • £10m of GLA Funding Announced for Councils to Increase Housing Supply
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      • Events For Your Calendar in The Coming Weeks
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    • ►Aug
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    • ►Jul
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      • Councils are taking control of housing delivery through mergers and housing companies
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    • ►Apr
      • Altair / JRF Housing and Poverty Prevention Project
      • Steve Douglas - New Chair of One Housing
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      • The Importance of Trust
      • Brexit - The Facts, Opportunities and How to Deal With Them
      • Did You Publish Your Gender Pay Report by the 4th April?
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      • Aquila Services Group invests in information management services.
    • ►Mar
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      • “The Housing Market Ain’t Broken”
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    • ►Feb
      • Five Years On – The Legacy of Cosmopolitan  
      • New Institutions, New Leaders, Same Challenges
    • ►Jan
      • Why it matters to think about the future shape of the sector
      • Things you didn't know about Altair?
      • HAs must publish Gender Pay Reports by 4th April 2018
      • Housing - will it ever get a settled strategy?  
  • ►2017
    • ►Nov
      • Leadership 2025 – Creating a more diverse leadership
      • The Altair Review – Delivering a step change in ethnically diverse leadership across the housing sector.
      • Murja re-brands to ATFS
      • Supported Housing Funding - The Next Steps
    • ►Oct
      • STOP PRESS : Altair joins forces with pod
      • Tips to Help Build Bridges
      • Altair and pod deliver with Local Authorities
      • The Rise of Local Housing Companies
      • Altair Africa Takes Off!
      • Rent setting: Just because you could, does it mean you should?
      • Clear Focus on Local Authorities
      • October News
      • The Taylor Review and what Housing Associations can learn from Uber
    • ►Sep
      • Building Bridges - A guide to better partnership working between local authorities and housing associations
      • Taking Stock report - challenge, change and innovation in the ALMO sector
      • Recruitment – Some Interesting Roles
      • Resetting the Housing Policy Clock
      • Altair News September 2017
    • ►Aug
      • BME associations hold early talks with City Hall over joint development vehicle
    • ►Jul
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      • Ministers Setting Rents Will Have To Balance Landlords' and Tenants' Needs
      • BME London Business Plan 2017-2022
    • ►Jun
      • "Shaping the Future" - Our First Webinar
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    • ►May
      • 4 Point Plan for Northern Housing
      • Social Housing Finance Conference 2017 – See you there!
      • Risk Management – Art or Science?
      • The 30 Year Plan
      • Leadership 2025 - creating a more diverse sector. Why every sector leader should stand up and be counted.
    • ►Apr
      • Deregulation 6th April – The brave new world of Boards and executives in control
      • Deregulation 6th April – Will Boards be replaced by Artificial Intelligence?
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    • ►Mar
      • Extra freedom, but a fresh burden too
      • How are ALMOs evolving and transforming in an ever changing market?
      • Multiplying Success through Collaboration
      • Practical Proposals to Improve Housing Poverty
      • New Research from CIH, First Wessex, Sentinel and Altair
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      • The Gender Pay Reporting Regulations - The Need to Know Facts
      • What does the Housing White Paper do for housing associations and local authorities who want to build?
      • The Housing White Paper - All you need to know
    • ►Jan
      • CoCo, DevCo, WOC, WOS, HDV, LHC, whatever you call them council-owned housing companies are on the rise!
      • Local Authority Right to Buy: Using, not losing your RTB receipts
      • Devolution - Affordable Housing programmes. London first, more to follow.
      • New Year, New Village
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      • The Hogan Suite of Profiling Tools
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  • ►2016
    • ►Dec
      • Annual Altair / Devonshires Welsh Seminar: Time for Transformational Change?
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    • ►Nov
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      • Leading successfully through transition
      • Hints for both interim clients and candidates
      • Gender pay reporting: Is your housing association ready?
      • A fresh perspective
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    • ►Jul
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      • Future regulation - implications of Brexit, Housing and Planning Act, IDAs, VFM and more
      • Brexit: Implications for employment law
      • My year in housing - a fresh perspective
      • Check the surface before you dive
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      • CIH Housing: Looking beyond the Euro exits
      • Talking devolution: Learning from Manchester's experiences
    • ►Jun
      • Making people your business
      • Brexit: The policy implications
      • Brexit: Financial implications for social housing providers
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      • CIH Manchester: The ones to watch
      • Altair and Murja well placed to support the sector
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      • Need to know: Employment law matters for Housing Associations
      • What does it mean for you? Housing and Planning Act 2016
      • Managing in changing times
      • Future regulation – implications of the Housing and Planning Act - IDAs, VFM and more
    • ►May
      • View from the South - it is grim up North?
      • Your quick guide to the Social Housing Finance conference
    • ►Apr
      • Merger and Acquisition Briefing Seminars
      • Owning your future
      • 7 tips for approaching transformation
      • We are Pobl Group
      • The Merger debate
      • Pulling Power – how housing associations can increase candidate attraction
    • ►Mar
      • Amanda Davies and Andrew Davies to lead newly formed Pobl Group
      • Your quick guide to the NHF Housing Finance Conference 2016
      • IT considerations when organisations merge
      • Are you suffering from a painful paper invoice process?
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      • What does the housing sector have in common?
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      • Cohousing hits the headlines
      • The latest insights from Wales
      • Assets, IDA and data
    • ►Jan
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      • Where have the predictions gone?
      • Be brave and meet the challenge
      • Delivering the NHF merger code: are you ready?
      • Asset and Liability Registers update
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    • ►Dec
      • National Housing Federation: Merger Code
      • Managing Your Asset Portfolio: Transformation, efficiency, scrutiny
      • Altair services set to expand following today's Group acquisition of Murja
      • Regulatory insights for smaller housing associations
      • Wales seminar: Managing your business in a changing political and economic landscape
    • ►Nov
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      • The platform isn't burning, how will you respond?
      • Spending review: time to get out the mop and bucket?
      • “New World” interim expertise
      • Here’s to the next 25 years of WHQ
      • So housing associations are now classified as public sector - what’s all the fuss about?
      • A vision for 2040
      • In Depth Assessments - Business as usual?
      • Surviving an IDA pilot
      • What next for local authorities: challenge of the new freedoms
      • Is that the smell of coffee or the sound of chickens coming home to roost?
      • Mergers and acquisitions: are you prepared for the new landscape?
    • ►Oct
      • London Local Authorities - the powerhouse for the south
      • Now is not the end of the sector, it's about being fit to survive
      • A life in housing
    • ►Sep
      • Altair out and about
      • Avoiding the housing workforce demographic time bomb
      • New faces, new projects
      • What our stock exchange listing gives us
      • Northern Housing Associations response to proposed right to buy extension (RTBE)
      • The morning after the night before
      • Upcoming Parliamentary Schedule: Bills that will affect the Housing Sector
      • Stock Exchange Listing – not for the faint-hearted...
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      • The Altair team - out and about
    • ►Aug
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      • Altair expansion plans confirmed
    • ►Jul
      • Budget announcements: the strategic impact
      • Altair set to expand
    • ►Jun
      • “Hello TOM" says Graham Hishmurgh
      • Employee benefits - what’s Branson doing now?
      • Demystifying ‘Lean’
      • Keeping track of your organisation culture
      • Genie seeks partnership with London developers
      • The Altair team - out and about
      • Gas Procurement: Five Associations, one process
      • Know your SIFI
      • The regulator’s deep dives - does pressure increase with depth?
      • The risks and challenges of development post-election
      • SPVs, Joint Ventures and PFI….Where’s the Assurance?
      • The people have voted – now prepare your people for the impact
      • The most interesting housing debates in a generation - starting in the North
      • An innovative alternative to right to buy
      • Leadership Series | Regulation and value for money
    • ►May
      • The Queen’s Speech 2015: Housing under the Conservatives
    • ►Apr
      • Local Housing Companies – renaissance… or not?
      • WOC’s up?
      • ALMOs: “To Be or Not To Be: That is the Question”
      • Planning with Brixx
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      • Altair 2014/15 housing review
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    • ►Mar
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    • ►Feb
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      • A good time to take stock
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      • The 7 percent solution
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      • Why are we bringing our shower caps to work?
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      • Thank me for being a millionaire?
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    • ►Oct
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