Featured image: Architecture and Urbanism’s People Powered Places brand that raises the possibilities for more representative neighbourhoods and communities, more of the time. In social housing there’s been a debate over the last forty years about how the cost of managing the privately owned housing estate can be efficiently run, supervised and scaled as well […]

Featured Image: Let’s Love Our Community on The Disruptive Inequalities blog How can we reconnect the aspirations of working class people who rent privately and in social housing with the aspirations of people who have mortgages, who have bought their homes? Because we need people to make meaningful relationships across class, age, ethnicities, genders that […]

Featured Image: how a watercolour of Hucknall by JC Hallam adds a softness and diversity we all seek in the neighbourhood. The divides in neighbourhoods everywhere need to be mended by new kinds of relationship between professional people and working class people where instead of deferring the problems they each see under their noses they […]

Charles Murray is an American right wing shock-journalist activist, nurtured and paid to become a sociologist propagandist for conservative eugenics over the last forty years. Murray began his transatlantic campaign during the Thatcher/Reagonmics era when the idea of how restricting the capacities, representation of working class people through agency, gig and gang labour under/overemployment and […]

Featured image: Duncan Johnson Street Cleaner, Telford Morton below: Irene Welburn, Nurse Brown ‘Every so often a moment comes along that snaps everything into sharp focus… this chapter in history has seen society shift its attention on to some of the people in this country who are not usually afforded the spotlight.’ Edward Enninful, Editor […]

Featured Image: A Vegetal City by Solar Punk architect Luc Schuiten profiled on Rob Hopkins blog Since the introduction of the category ‘limiting long term illness’ in the census in 1991 we’re beginning to realise that it wasn’t ever used in the way people living in Britain expected. Census data has been used to enable venture […]

Featured Image: Tony Hickmott and parents at 13: when he was 26 he was deprived of his liberty, incarcerated in a Assessment and Treatment facility that changed ownership, managership and client group many times during his eighteen years of incarceration In Black History month it’s worth thinking about the parallels of the underground railway that […]

At MTVH (Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing) in Nottingham and the East Midlands, there’s an awareness of how all the teams that make the organisation need to work together with tenants that’s being rolled out across the new tenant engagement platform.  It’s called Customer Voice and I think it’s come at a time where it’s part of a wider social recognition that […]

Featured image and images in the article from David Whitfield’s Evening Post article on social housing in Nottingham 08:00, 13 JAN 2019 UPDATED 08:31, 17 AUG 2020 4.4 million people rent social housing: individual, group, company, voluntary and charitable landlords have 5.5 million names on private rented contracts: Generation Rent calculate that when family members […]

The health of a neighbourhood can be measured in the way people enjoy visiting it, the way they’re received and the variety of activities, events and opportunities it fosters for the wider community around it. If this is missing it’s because there are people who haven’t been included.  The sale of council houses in the […]