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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.
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.
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.