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Young people, sex and the new norms – IPPR study
IPPR asked young people how they feel they can be educated and supported to form healthy, positive relationships in this age of digital, mobile communications.…
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Emergency hardship fund cut by £40 by government
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has slashed funded for an emergency hardship fund by £40m. According to Inside Housing: The DWP announced…
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Housing providers role in tackling poverty
The Northern Housing Consortium would like to see some of the great work members are doing in tackling poverty among young people to be…
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Renters pay more than home owners
Someone who has been unable to get on the property ladder for the last five years would have paid nearly £4,000 more to rent…
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Can shared ownership help the housing crisis
Shared ownership could play a significant role in meeting our current housing crisis, and people’s aspirations to own their home, if we could increase…
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Decentralisation – a 10 year programme
A 10-year programme of English decentralisation, spanning parliaments and built on cross-party support, is urgently required – starting now. According to IPPR: decentralisation-decade_Sep2014 Over…
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Developing resilient Local Economies
This report examines case studies of good practice among local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) in relation to our ‘LEP resilience framework’, which assesses key areas…
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Starter homes plan
The CIH has been blogging ts response to the governments plan: The cost of housing means that many people are struggling to take their…
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Powers to create garden villages
Whitehall should give new powers to councils to enable them to create new ‘garden villages’, which could help build one million new homes across…
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Conservative push ahead to gift HA homes to tenants
Investors could be driven away from the sector if the Conservatives push ahead with plans to ‘gift’ housing association homes to tenants. According to…