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Up Your Street: Housing Associations and the Neighbourhood and Communities Agenda

Introduction

The report describes the current policy context and the Government’s emerging approach to neighbourhood governmental arrangements and service delivery.

Description

The research report examines social housing organisations’ capacity to play a role in delivering the Government’s neighbourhood and communities agenda by investigating related good practice in neighbourhood management and service provision and discerning critical success factors. The report also draws relevant policy implications for both social landlords and the Housing Corporation.

Background information

The research report cited that the Government is paying increasing attention to both the quality and coherence of service provision at the neighbourhood level and securing greater resident involvement in local decision making.

Methodology

The content of the report is largely based upon a desk review of:

Government publications (e.g. White Papers, discussion papers, commissioned evaluation reports, ministerial speeches and announcements),
Housing Corporation reports (e.g. Innovation
and Good Practice studies),
information produced by other housing organizations (e.g. National Housing Federation; Chartered Institute for Housing; PEP Ltd) and
reports about individual neighbourhood management and neighbourhood service delivery initiatives.

Conclusions

The conclusions of the review have shown that housing associations other housing organisations are in many respects well placed to make a significant contribution to the Government’s neighbourhood agenda owing to their ethos and long term stake in many localities and generally good links and rapport with residents.

Contact info

The Housing Corporation
Phone: +44 (0) 845 230 7000
crmi@housingcorp.gsx.gov.uk

Publication date

Project finished

//2006

Researcher

European Institute for Urban Affairs – Richard Evans, Richard Meegan

Links

Visit the Housing Corporation website

Download the 'Up Your Street: Housing Associations and the Neighbourhood and Communities Agenda' Report (PDF, Eng, 572 KB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration, Housing