18 Jan 2021 | Climate and sustainability

Meeting the challenges of fuel poverty and climate change

In this guest blog, Katy Syme talks about how Changeworks is supporting the housing sector to deliver on challenging targets and juggle competing priorities.

13 Jan 2021 | Climate and sustainability | Development and regeneration

Modern methods of construction and sustainability - Bristol Housing Festival

Jessie Wilde, deputy project director at Bristol Housing Festival shares how the organisation is approaching the challenges around sustainability, development and construction.

12 Jan 2021 | Climate and sustainability

Our journey to reduce environmental impact - Thirteen

Sam Granger, head of environmental and sustainability at Thirteen shares more on their organisations journey so far.

07 Jan 2021 | CIH updates

What's coming up for housing in 2021?

We take a look at the big things happening across the sector this year.

17 Dec 2020

Scotland housing awards - best frontlline housing story

The ‘Best frontline housing story’ award is sponsored by Berwickshire Housing Association.

16 Dec 2020 | Climate and sustainability

Making our homes warmer and greener - highlights for housing in the Energy White Paper

The highlights for the housing sector from the recent Energy White Paper.

11 Dec 2020 | CIH updates

Scotland housing awards - excellence in customer service

The ‘excellence in customer service’ award at the Scotland housing awards is sponsored by the Scottish Government’s housing services policy unit.

08 Dec 2020 | Development and regeneration | Health and housing

Housing at the heart of our local recovery

The correlation between areas with higher levels of overcrowding and areas recording a higher number of positive covid-19 cases, once again sheds light on the link between health and housing.

08 Dec 2020

What the Social Housing White Paper says about: complaints

Over the next few weeks, we'll be exploring some of the contents from the recent Social Housing White Paper. This week's blog focuses on complaints.

08 Dec 2020 | Development and regeneration | Health and housing

The 20 minute neighbourhood

CIH's Hannah Keilloh discuss the concept behind 20 minute neighbourhoods and the benefits of these shown so strongly through the pandemic and lockdown.

08 Dec 2020

Is there a case for homeownership education in the UK?

How can we make it easier to educate first-time buyers on all aspects of homeownership? Dr Alison Wallace from the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York discusses homeownership education.

24 Nov 2020 | CIH updates | Professionalism and training

The Big Conversation

In this guest blog, Eilidh MacDonald, Graduate trainee at Kingdom Housing Association reflects on her experiences of working in housing and why she is looking forward to The Big Conversation event.

23 Nov 2020 | Building and fire safety | Regulation and legal

Tackling disrepair claims

Southern Housing Group share their journey to tackle disrepair claims and implement a new process to deliver game-changing results.

23 Nov 2020

TECH the missing piece

In this new guest blog Geraldine Begg, Technology Enabled Care in Housing programme co-ordinator, sets out some of the ways that technology can support the housing sector.

18 Nov 2020

Close to home: the housing sector's role in dementia care

In this new guest blog, Grant McManus a graduate trainee with Kingdom Housing Association talks about how the housing sector can support people to live well with dementia.