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How we let Grenfell happen

17 Nov 2022
Journalist Peter Apps explores the devastating tragedy of Grenfell Tower five years on. What caused the disaster and what kind of housing policy reform is most needed now to ensure it never happens again?
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Tenants – living through a housing crisis

19 May 2022
Examining history, politics and deeply personal stories, journalist Vicky Spratt traces the policy decisions that have created a housing emergency and offers a new route forward for supporting tenants in Britain.
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Hometown Glory

6 Apr 2023 Clare Gage
One Fellow’s place-based approach to creating change in her hometown of Chesterfield
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Could Cohousing Catch On?

5 Apr 2023 Salla Korpela
How a group of friends built a multi-generational community
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Belonging

5 Apr 2023 Nicola Bacon
What does it take to transform a neighbourhood into a community?
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5 Apr 2023 Suad Aldarra
When Suad Aldarra, Writer and Data Scientist, was uprooted to Ireland in 2014, she wasn’t sure what to expect.
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Behind the Façade

5 Apr 2023 Alistair Barr
Learnings from King Charles’s Poundbury and Nansledan developments go beyond aesthetics
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What’s gone wrong with social housing?

29 Mar 2023 Paul Eastwood
Social housing has a noble history of providing decent homes for people on low incomes, but recent years have seen scandal after scandal. Paul Eastwood argues for structural change in the sector.
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Homes for good

1 Dec 2022 Susan Aktemel
A Scottish social enterprise letting agency is creating a roadmap for the private rented sector
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Home safe

16 Mar 2022 Rachel O’Brien
How one open door can change a life.
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