Regeneration

I remember buying one of those novelty books a few years ago which enjoyed the title Boring Postcards. It was a book that revelled in the peculiar excitement that local authorities have for their new developments, however mundane they might appear to the outside world.

From a people-centred perspective, the welfare debate is back to front: the goal must be to build capacity, not simply to reduce budgets, argues Julian Dobson.

In January 2013 the Greater Manchester Poverty Commission reported that 600,000 people were living in ‘extreme poverty’ and a further 1.6 million – nearly half the conurbation’s total – were at risk of sliding into poverty.