Levelling Up: Inequality should not be inevitable
A year after the Levelling Up White Paper was published this blog explores the current funding mechanisms and what must be done to ensure transparency so that no place is left behind.
Creating safe housing for LGBTQI asylum seekers
This blog details the life changing difference LGBTQI safe housing makes for asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution.
Levelling up in practice to build fair foundations for all
Karbon Homes' Charlotte Carpenter explores the value of shaping strong sustainable places for communities ahead of the Northern Housing Festival 2023.
Dealing with damp, mould, and condensation
This blog by John Ghader describes how Prima Housing Group have embedded their damp and mould strategy in their business as usual approach to reduce disrepair cases.
Regeneration nation: Learning from people-powered models in rural areas
Ronnie MacRae, chief executive officer at Communities Housing Trust shares more about recent regeneration developments ahead of Scotland's Housing Festival 2022.
Planning agencies: an alternative approach to public sector planning
In this blog the RTPI explore the effects of sustained funding cuts and potential solutions to some of the challenges facing public sector planning.
Innovating a way through the homeless crisis
In this blog Beam COO, Seb Barker, discusses how we can innovate a way through the homeless crisis, harnessing the power of technology to support those experiencing homelessness.
Looking back on 2022 and ahead to 2023
CIH's head of policy and external affairs, Rachael Williamson, looks back on the year in housing and forward to the challenges and opportunities we are anticipating from 2023.
Customer engagement – Do you want easy and cheap, or to get it right?
Steve Mackenzie, member of Yorkshire Housing's customer voice and review committee gives insight into his upcoming session at the Northern Housing Festival.
Looking back – The Welsh housing landscape in 2022
Cerys Clark, policy and public affairs manager for CIH Cymru, looks back on a year in Welsh housing.
The cost of living crisis and social sector rents
September’s mini-budget gave little help to poorer families apart from its pre-announced support for fuel bills, writes John Perry in this edited extract from UK Housing Review Autumn Briefing Paper.
What can we learn from staff working on the frontline of homelessness
St-Martin-in-the-Field share their research detailing lived and frontline experience of addressing homelessness, and areas where change is needed to help prevent and relieve homelessness
Disabled people deserve change
Michael Erhardt from Disability Rights UK discusses why more must be done across the sector to make homes more fit for purpose for Disabled individuals.
We must improve housing outcomes for victims of domestic abuse
CIH Scotland’s national director Callum Chomczuk calls for a bolder approach to improving housing outcomes for victims of domestic abuse.
Barriers to support: social housing and kinship care
This blog looks at who kinship carers are, how is the cost of living crisis affecting them and why it important for the housing sector to listen and support kinship carers.
