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Community development: making a difference in social housing
- Authors:
- GASTER Lucy, CROSSLEY Richard
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 70p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Housing associations are taking on the ‘Housing Plus’ agenda, changing the focus from ‘property’ to ‘people’. The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust has been pursuing this agenda since 1996. In early 1997, a specially appointed community development worker started work to trigger and support this transformation. Community development follows what happened in the first three years. It explores different models for working with communities to improve services and to ensure that all residents are involved. The authors evaluate the processes and effects, as well as the ‘added value’ and the costs and benefits of community development. They also examine what changes are needed both within the community and within the organisation. The study’s findings will be relevant to all types of social housing organisations now trying to get closer to their tenants and residents.
Swamps and alligators: the future for low cost home ownership
- Author:
- MARTIN Graham
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- York
House prices are now so high that in many areas health service staff, teachers, transport workers and others required for the success of the local economy cannot afford to buy a home without help. This report looks at how Government, Housing Corporation and housing associations can work together to improve low cost home ownership schemes as a bridge between subsidised renting housing and full open market purchase. Strategic use of low-cost home-ownership initiatives can achieve wider benefits, in addition to increasing housing supply: they can help achieve more inclusive, mixed-income communities, contributing to economic and social stability in both high and low value areas.
Planning for older people in New Osbaldwick
- Author:
- APPLETON Nigel
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study explores what might help older people settle most easily into a new community such as New Osbaldwick. The review identifies the characteristics of neighbourhoods and communities that will meet their needs, aspirations and priorities. It discusses the implications of their current and future requirements in the design and operation of their homes. The key issues are summarised in a set of recommendations for planners, developers and all those interested in the impact of an ageing society upon the provision of housing.
After the crossroads: housing associations as community investors
- Editor:
- SLATTER Paul
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Housing associations are currently facing basic choices how they operate. Should they go ‘back to basics’ by concentrating on housing management, or should they diversify? Is it time for them to seek sustainability through the economic security of merger with other associations, or through stronger links to local communities? From such debates a new type of housing association has already started to emerge. Sharing common ground with development trusts and enterprise development agencies, these associations engage more fully with, and re-invest in, the communities they serve. Including five detailed case studies, the book looks at the extent of community investment by housing associations and matches examples to the key ideas in the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. The authors suggest that existing definitions of community investment fail to do justice to the diversity and extent of the work being undertaken and seek to re-define it in terms of enabling sustainable communities. Enabling communities to manage change effectively for themselves may, they suggest, be the defining aim of the new breed of housing association.
Changing places, engaging people
- Author:
- MACLENNAN Duncan
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 43p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Area Regeneration Programme encompasses more than 30 diverse research and development studies of the problems in, and possible solutions for, rejuvenating deprived areas. In this report, the author relates the key findings from the programme to the Social Exclusion Unit’s (SEU) consultation report, National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. Whilst much of the evidence produced in the Area Regeneration Programme has already informed the National Strategy, there remain differences in the conclusions from the evidence and those of the Strategy. Acknowledging the overlap, and the clear and useful approaches in the National Strategy, this report highlights the topic areas where the Programme suggests additional actions are needed. In this report, the author discusses: problem definition, incidence and causes; the role of housing systems in neighbourhood change; jobs; strengthening communities; changing services; and new organisational and governance arrangements.
Housing benefit reform: next steps
- Authors:
- KEMP Peter, WILCOX Steve, RHODES David
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
An exploration of the options for restructuring and simplifying the current Housing Benefit scheme. Among all social security benefits, it is widely accepted that housing benefit suffers from some of the greatest problems. The Government has declared its intention of tackling this longstanding issue. Tax and pension proposals due to come into effect in 2003 have brought added urgency. This book considers the rules restricting the amount of rent taken into account when housing benefit is assessed and the relationship between housing benefit and the new tax credits. It also suggests how to reduce the poverty trap which the current system of overlapping benefits and tapers has created. The report outlines the position of low income owner-occupiers who are not eligible for benefit, and who can be worse off in work than out of it. The authors argue that a reformed housing benefit system incorporating a flat rate element could offer significant advantages, would be more transparent and easier to manage. They suggest that a properly integrated tax credit system should help reduce those poverty traps and that including owners within the system would help break down the tenure divide and end the unemployment trap.
The slow death of great cities?: urban abandonment or urban renaissance
- Authors:
- POWER Anne, MUMFORD Katharine
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 131p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report examines four inner neighbourhoods in two Northern cities that suffer from low demand, incipient abandonment and severe depopulation. It attempts to uncover the causes of abandonment, describe the struggle of those living through the experience and assess attempted remedies. The problems are examined at three levels: acute problems at city level; extreme problems at neighbourhood level; and complete abandonment in the worst pockets of the most difficult areas. The researchers found that regardless of housing quality, abandonment is affecting all tenures and all property types. The critical driving factors are: history and reputation; a decayed environment; easy access to better housing in better neighbourhoods; management problems; the failure of mainstream services; and the gradual breakdown of social stability. But the study also uncovered hundreds of projects that are helping to hold conditions. The report suggests a range of policy options that can build on the positive measures already in train and concludes that there is real potential for repopulating inner areas.