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How can housing help migrants integrate into communities?
Recent discussion about migration has focused almost entirely on the numbers of people coming into the country, but debates about numbers don’t respond to the issues that emerged in the areas where migrants had gone to live and find work. While London continues to be the most attractive destination, the biggest increases in the percentage…
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Power to the tenants
The housing minister, Grant Shapps, has just finished consulting on a new set of rules, refining laws introduced in 2008, to give council tenants the right to take over the management of their estates and request that ownership ‘be transferred from the council to a local housing association’. ‘Nobody knows the needs of a neighbourhood…
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Migration Watch does it again
Migration Watch’s latest assessment of the impact of migration on housing was only noticed by much of the media when Frank Field MP suddenly decided to use its ‘evidence’ to back his own ideas about how social housing should be allocated. Migration Watch’s line was – as usual – that migrants are getting far too…
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Budget borrowing blow for housing
Councils need to ‘keep calm and carry on’ despite the chancellor’s threat yesterday to re-examine how much local government is allowed to borrow for housing. Tucked away in the Budget red book published yesterday was a worrying mention of the effects on public borrowing of council housing finance reform.