James Bryson, Public Affairs Officer for PlaceShapers writes about the latest Diverse Voices session looking into the importance and value of lived experience in the housing sector
22 June 2021 more...
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New model for Shared ownership: technical consultation response
Increasing support for, and interest in, shared ownership as many people’s only realistic route to home ownership.
23 Dec 2020 more...
PlaceShapers 2020
Housing Minister tells PlaceShapers 2020: Thank you for the work you do in supporting the social housing sector including the 2 million people who rely on you and the services that you provide.
24 Nov 2020 more...
APPG into Housing and Social Mobility Report Launch
New report, led by social housing sector, spotlights how to improve employment and training for thousands of people across the UK.
20 Oct 2020 more...
PlaceShapers response to Planning for the Future Consultation
PlaceShapers members own or manage 930,000 homes with over 100,000 more in the pipeline to 2023, 35% of the homes predicted to be built by the housing association sector.
7 Oct 2020 more...
Places After The Pandemic
Covid 19 could offer a once in a lifetime opportunity for housing associations to deliver more with their communities, change how homes are built and adapt services, according to PlaceShapers’ and HACT’s Places After The Pandemic report.
16 Sep 2020 more...
MP Danny Kruger asked 'How can we empower and strengthen communities for the long term?'
Here is what PlaceShapers has to say...
21 Jul 2020 more...
Build build build
PlaceShapers response to Prime Minister's speech highlighting fear the Affordable Housing Programme has been cut.
30 Jun 2020 more...
Matthew Walker appointed Chair of Placeshapers
Matthew Walker, Chief Executive at Leeds Federated Housing Association, has been appointed Chair of PlaceShapers, the national network of community-based social landlords.
11 Jun 2020 more...
Our partner HACT is measuring the impact we’ve made
PlaceShapers have joined HACT and a number of other organisations in endorsing a set of nine impact measurements that the Centre for Excellence in Community Investment is asking social housing organisations to collect during the Covid-19 crisis.
13 May 2020 more...
#OurOtherNationalDebt
PlaceShapers Director Rachael Orr was pleased to be able to contribute to a collection of essays collated by Oxfam UK titled ‘Our Other National Debt: Repaying the people we owe the most after coronavirus’.
7 May 2020 more...
