Round-up of the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2019

8 November 2019

Chris is Head of Events at the National Housing Federation

What a thought-provoking two days at the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2019.

Delivering in the community

5 November 2019

Clare is Chair of the g320

We are on a journey to meet the housing needs of our local communities and as these rise and change, smaller housing associations are meeting the challenge.

Showcase: Together we can

31 October 2019

Waltham Forest Housing Association are a smaller place- based association, working in the London Borough of Waltham Forest for just over 50 years.

Tenants, board members, staff and other supporters of Waltham Forest Housing Association (WFHA) joined us at their offices on Thursday 26 September 2019 to celebrate the launch of their first-ever film, ‘Together we can’.

Successful partnerships: Community Land Trusts and housing associations

28 October 2019

Tom is Co-Chief Executive of the National CLT Network

Norton-sub-Hamdon is a picture postcard village nestled in the low hills of south Somerset. It's home to one of a growing number of successful partnerships between Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and housing associations and shows the benefits that both parties can bring to one another.

Relationships built on trust

17 October 2019

Amanda is Chief Executive of Black Country Housing Group

Trust. A word loaded with emotion and feeling. Trust is a big word, one you associate with parent and child, husband and wife. It infers faith, safety, belief, confidence and honesty. So what does trust even look like in a landlord tenant relationship?

Homelessness – what more could housing associations do?

17 September 2019

David is Chief Executive of Hightown Housing Association

Shelter estimates that around 300,000 people are in temporary accommodation and 5,000 people are rough sleeping. Despite everything that is being done by Government, by local authorities, by homelessness charities and by housing associations, these figures are not reducing – indeed many believe that the rough sleeping figures are an underestimate.

Helping you unlock your growth potential

23 October 2018

John is a Senior Development Consultant at Red Loft

Never before has the need for more affordable homes been greater, and housing associations of all sizes have a role to play in solving this crisis.

Small is beautiful

18 October 2018

Paul Mullis is Chief Executive at Durham Aged Miners Homes

‘Big is beautiful’ the saying goes, and for a long time, it appeared that this was the belief of the powers that be when it came to social housing, and housing associations in particular.

Working in partnership to build new homes

8 October 2018

Philip Murton is Managing Director of Iceni Homes, a joint venture development company owned by Colne Housing, Hundred Houses and Suffolk Housing

With an ever-increasing focus on improving performance whilst also becoming more efficient, the challenge for all housing associations, but especially smaller housing associations, to think about how to do things differently has never been greater.

Time for a balanced view on modern methods of construction

28 September 2018

Allison Whittington is the Head of Housing at Zurich Municipal

It’s hard to remember a time when the word ‘crisis’ wasn’t used in any discussion about Britain’s housing shortage.