Housing 2017

by Stuart Macdonald|05 October 201730 October 2019|Blog

A speech marred by ill health, rogue comedians and stage errors – this will be the conference speech that Prime Minister Theresa May will want to forget. Frustratingly for the party, this should have been a good speech – promises...

Housing 2017, day three: How are landlords making tower blocks safer?

by Stuart Macdonald|29 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

Grenfell Tower was often the only subject on everyone’s lips at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual event in Manchester this week. Yet, it was striking how little common direction existed in efforts to make homes safe in the wake...

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Housing 2017, day three: The Missing Minister

by Stuart Macdonald|29 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

It's been 22 years since a housing minister last failed to address the CIH annual housing conference. But this year, on the final day of conference, the newly appointed housing minister Alok Sharma MP pulled out of his keynote speaking...

Housing 2017 day two: time to talk

by Guest|29 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

It’s been four years since I attended the Chartered Institute of Housing conference. The last time I was here, in June 2013, the coalition government was in power and it was placing all of its emphasis on home ownership.

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Housing 2017: Social housing in the spotlight over Grenfell

by Stuart Macdonald|27 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

Speakers at the opening day of this year’s Chartered Institute of Housing annual event in Manchester had an unenviable task. They had to acknowledge that everything they said in their presentations was in the context of the tragic events at...