To build or not to build - that is the DORIC
Stewart Little, CEO of IRT Survey's shares more about how their advance thermal imaging survey technology and DREam platform is achieving significant gains in energy performance.
What Windrush Day means to me
Amanda Bhavnani, Eastlight Community Homes’ communications advisor, shares what Windrush Day on 22 June means to her and her family.
Looking back on a Cartrefi Conwy award hat-trick
Annette Hennessey, communication and marketing manager at Cartrefi Conwy, looks back on the organisation's incredible award hat-trick at the Welsh Housing Awards 2019.
The complexity of choice
In a series of blogs, CIH's Yoric Irving-Clarke looks at some common philosophical assumptions, unpicking them in relation to housing. This week, he looks at the complexity of choice.
How can the UK’s social housing stigma be overturned?
Social housing plays an essential role in the UK’s housing and social environment but there is an inherent and unwarranted stigma attached to it.
Building a brighter future in housing
Gemma Clisset, regional partnerships director at Lovell discusses how the pandemic's restrictions caused to rethink their operations entirely and adapt to critical changes in the market.
Affordable housing must be at the heart of the Government’s legislative agenda
Leigh Pearce, chief executive of The Nationwide Foundation makes the case for a national housing strategy, using data from the Affordable Housing Commission and the Archbishops’ Housing Commission
The government launches ‘Own Your Home’
CIH policy and practice officer Hannah Keilloh explores the government's Own Your Home campaign, questioning whether this is really support that society needs to tackle the housing crisis.
Raising the standard for Windrush
Nigel Guy shares more about ‘Raising the Standard for Windrush’ ahead of Windrush Day on 22 June 2021.
A traumatised system: lessons learned from commissioning homelessness services over the past decade
Reflecting on the pandemic, Riverside's John Glenton discusses the new homelessness report post-script and the impact COVID-19 has had on the resilience of this already-traumatised system.
What does Pride Month mean to me?
Andrew Allocca, development manager for Eastlight Homes, tells us about the impact the Pride Movement has had on his life.
It takes a sector to raise a housing professional
Paul Murphy, CIH Scotland board member explores how, as a sector, we should help raise the next generation of housing professionals.
Digital gains
As we take the next steps out of COVID-19. Gareth Leech, chair of Housing Futures Cymru, discusses the prominence of digital that's come with the pandemic.
We must challenge the culture on immigration
In this opinion piece, first published in the Herald, Callum Chomczuk, national director at CIH Scotland shares his views on the new imigration plan published by the Home Office.
The real meaning of need
In a series of blogs, CIH's Yoric Irving-Clarke looks at some common philosophical assumptions, unpicking them in relation to housing. This week, he looks at the real meaning of need.
