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Back to the future

Back to the future brings together arguments from thinkers in housing, reflecting on the history and predicting the future of social housing in the UK. It is based on a series of essays commissioned by the Bermondsey Group
  • Apartments under construction in Stratford

    Lifting housebuilding restrictions could reduce standards in the long run

    Reducing housebuilding restrictions may boost development, but will it be at the expense of standards and affordable homes, asks Clive Smith
  • Toolbox opened

    Social landlords have myriad of options when it comes to maintenance

    Social housing maintenance has moved on from simply arguing over whether insourcing or outsourcing is best, argues Jane Nelson
  • Elderly people walk with frames

    Back to the future: a housing movement no more?

    Greg Campbell and Maggie Rafalowicz ask whether commercialism has changed the social housing sector for good?

  • Letchworth Garden City shopping centre

    Back to the future: time to rediscover the visionary origins of planning

    Kate Henderson
    Kate Henderson says planning is not the barrier to economic growth that the coalition government likes to suggest
  • Painted terraced houses, London

    Back to the future: it's time to reset social rent and housing benefit

    We can't address a lack of housing supply until there's more certainty about subsidy – even if that means a rising benefit bill. David Hall writes
  • 1960s tenament housewife

    Back to the future: landlords to enjoy greatest freedoms since 1945

    The government can no longer afford to subsidise housing, but it's actually a time of opportunity for housing associations argues Keith Jenkins

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