Good Local Economics

Q & A with Tony Stacey: Forging an alternative narrative about social housing

Since setting up in 2008, Placeshapers has become a network of more than 100 housing associations driven by the desire to forge an alternative narrative about the role social landlords can play in their localities. Chair Tony Stacey, chief executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association, talks to New Start about why we’re sleepwalking into a housing crisis

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Lilac co-housing: How they did it

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Local economic policy must get social

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What are the vital signs of your local area?

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How far can the CLT model go?

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It’s systems change, stupid

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Co-ops and commons approaches to reviving places

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10 ideas for change: Co-operative local economies

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Local policies for building community wealth

We need to move beyond ‘projects’ and towards policies that help build and sustain community wealth, says John Duda of the Democracy Collaborative

At the Democracy Collaborative, we’re interested in finding ways to build community wealth at scale — that is, in finding ways to anchor capital, democratise ownership, and stabilise local economies to really make a difference in the lives of low-income communities that find themselves marginalised by the current paradigm of economic development.