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Communities Housing

Are welfare policies undermining efforts to cut homelessness?

A number of welfare policies have ‘combined to create an environment that limits the availability ...

Communities Finance

Local welfare schemes on ‘brink of collapse’

‘Our research reveals a depressingly bleak picture.'

Regeneration

Beat the Street: Building health by stealth

Beat the Street turns towns and cities into giant games to help people get more ...

Economic Development

A social turn to the local economic growth agenda?

So the agenda is moving. That is good. But I hope the converts to social ...

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Can fintech innovation help indebted families?

This week sees the launch of a new CfRC report which reviewed technological innovations on ...

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Making sense of the business rates conundrum

George Osborne’s plans for business rates devolution have so far thrown up more questions than ...

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Tackling local poverty needs national system change

Local systems change is vitally important to tackling poverty. However, without a supportive national system ...

Communities Economic Development Housing Local Government Regeneration

Back to the future?

Now that the state has decided not to provide homes at subsidised rent and to ...

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SURVEY: Can councils and residents work together to achieve lasting change in communities?

New Start is partnering with Local Trust to explore how residents and local authorities can ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government

A persuasive vision of a future economy

It was a persuasive vision of a future economy – more connected, democratic, using peer ...