Regeneration
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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Lambeth Council: Learning lessons in co-operation
An empty shop in south London is helping Lambeth council workers change the way they do their jobs. Clare Goff visits the ‘co-operative council’ and finds a changed conversation taking place
‘Sitting in the town hall, the idea of the co-operative council was theoretical. Being here in the shop I’ve found an appetite for doing things differently’, says Rohini Anand-Pal, policy, equalities and performance officer at Lambeth Council, who now spends three days of her working week sitting in an empty shop on the high street in West Norwood, a residential area in the south of the borough.
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