Month: June 2014

The Q#2 quintet, and more

Here are the five posts on this blog that recorded the most hits between April and June 2014: Uncertain terrain: Issues and challenges facing housing associations (11th May 2013) Ed’s brave housing proposal (1st May) Welfare reforms: the evidence mounts (9th April) Why is Owen Jones so annoying? (4th July 2013) The […]

Making the case for the right to housing

There’s plenty happening in the housing world at the moment, and I’m not just talking about last week’s parallel Manchester gatherings at the CIH annual conference and the HACT House Party. We’ve seen IPPR launch a fuller version of its proposals for shifting housing subsidy away from housing […]

Learning implementation lessons

Chris Dillow draws our attention to the issue of policy implementation. He rightly argues that implementation is vitally important, but does not play well in the media. Unless, that is, something goes spectacularly wrong. The media tends to be more interested in the political “soap opera” or in […]

Strategic silences

I’ve been thinking a bit since Nick Clegg’s big speech on Monday. It was a speech intended primarily for the party faithful, rather than the broader public. Some of the shifts in position it signalled were only really going to be detected by those with well-tuned antennae. Some […]

Home, security and locatedness

There seems to be an awful lot of housing news and comment circulating just at the moment. And it isn’t just more of the same. The arguments for a change of gear on housing policy seem to be growing louder and more frequent. The housing sector, it’s argued, […]

Hashtags

I received an email today from someone relatively new to Twitter asking me about hashtags and how they are used. Below is an elaboration on the email I sent back. I thought there might be someone else out there who might find it useful. Hashtags have two quite […]