Economic Development

The time is right for new models of housing

It feels like the time is right, at least in Sheffield, for new models of housing, and living in the city in ways that have maybe not been considered in masterplans and existing strategies. Three factors are combining to make this the case.

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Salford: A social value city

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Youth unemployment is still a problem

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Local communities need ownership of ‘wicked’ problems

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NHS devolution: the route to tackling health inequality?

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Joining the dots between health and local growth

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Ten ideas for creating systemic change

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How to change our failing systems

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To change society we need to change systems

Systems change focuses on the root causes – rather than the symptoms – of social and economic problems. At LankellyChase Foundation it is at the heart of its work, explains programme director Alice Evans.

‘When the funding ends, the projects ends. If only I could get the idea to take hold within the wider system.’ I don’t know how many times I have heard that statement; both when I was working in delivery charities and now working within an independent funder.