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Don’t listen to the negativity, much in social housing has improved

By Jamie Ratcliff

According to some commentators, everything was perfect in the social housing sector in the past. This is not true and believing that now is the worst possible time of delivering services risks demotivating people, writes Jamie Ratcliff

Let’s extend 28-day adjudication to buyers of new homes

By Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham makes a plea to housing secretary Steve Reed to ditch a Construction Act exclusion that ill serves new home buyers

It’s time to be bold and recognise our housing system just isn’t working
By Keith Exford
Improving transparency to help residents make sense of service charges
By Kush Rawal
Can the government’s devolution reforms deliver for social and affordable housing?
By Pete Canavan
Building 1.5 million homes requires a radical, joined-up strategy
By Richard Jones
How Greatwell Homes is using ‘nudge’ theory to improve gas safety access rates
By Chris Holloway
Small housebuilders are being pushed to the brink. What would the late Duncan Davidson do in this market?
AI could force us to re-imagine public consultation in planning
New towns taskforce report lacks a strategy for creating accessible housing for disabled people
By Christina McGill
Residents must be active partners in housing services
By Marcus Canning
Will complaint-handling be one of the first social landlord services exposed to AI without being prepared?
By Richard Blakeway
We can’t fix social cohesion without fixing housing
By Rachael Williamson
Time to share why you are a good employer in housing
By Carl Brown

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