Blog: 2012
New data tools allow housing staff to understand social trends
by Matt Leach - on 10/12/2012From mental health rates to employment, housing providers can map their properties and community work against local statistics.
Comments: 0Community Insight: A new open data tool for housing providers
by Matt Leach - on 07/12/2012With the long-term economic outlook decidedly gloomy, HACT's CEO Matt Leach talks about the new range of tools that HACT is developing to equip housing providers for a challenging future.
Comments: 0Re-Made in Dagenham
by Line Algoed - on 30/11/2012HACT's Housing Intern Line Algoed, who is currently working on the self-help housing project, visits a site in Essex to see how community grants made from the DCLG's Empty Homes Programme are turning around both empty properties and the community.
Comments: 0A new economy for housing: investing in social enterprise
by John Coburn - on 16/11/2012With the long-term economic outlook bleak, HACT's Network Coordinator John Coburn comments that an innovative approach is required to look into new opportunities for tenant employment.
Comments: 0Looking beyond land use in neighbourhood planning: What resources should we be scouting for?
by Zoe Savory - on 15/11/2012HACT's current Housing Intern Zoe Savory discusses the recent 'Building neighbourhoods that people want to live in' HACT workshop and considers how the sector can effectively target investment within their neighbourhood planning agenda.
Comments: 0Kill Wonga: Or How Could Housing Associations Work With Community Organisers?
by Matthew Gardiner - on 14/11/2012HACT's Board member Michael Gardiner reflects on his own career in housing and believes that community organisers and housing associations can team together to move the sector forward.
Comments: 0Neighbourhood Planning: Are we missing the point?
by Pat Jones - on 14/09/2012HACT's Partnerships and Insight Manager Pat Jones discusses the opportunities that new neighbourhood planning rights present and why creativity there is a need for providers to think creatively.
Comments: 1Community led planning: what can CRTB offer us?
by Andrew Van Doorn - on 10/08/2012HACT's Deputy CEO Andrew Van Doorn discusses the opportunities that Community Right to Build can bring, and reflects on how housing providers can support their communities to really make a success of it.
Comments: 0Social Enterprise, Social Impact, Social value?
by Matt Leach - on 13/07/2012HACT's CEO Matt Leach highlights the important role of housing associations as community-focused social enterprises and what that might mean for the changing ways in which they do business
Comments: 0The challenges ahead: housing and worklessness
by John Coburn - on 11/07/2012HACT's Network Coordinator John Coburn writes about the current issues faced by housing associations in relation to tenant worklessness.
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