And the band played on……
Hair brained schemes and crackpot ideas…..it can be said that this has been a theme of my nearly 30 years working in housing. Alongside others, I have been involved with helping to identify new solutions to problems others may have considered unsolvable or had simply filed under too difficult. Although starting off in mainstream housing management,…
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Keeping families together
It is often said that the Englishman’s house is his castle. However not everyone is lucky enough to have a stable home. What do you do and where do you live for example if you are a young mother with a couple of children, are caught up in the wrong crowd, and have been charged…
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Silence vs words – talking about difficult issues…
Let’s talk about international conflicts, terminal illness and bereavement. At this point we may already be lost for words. What do we say & how to respond?
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Trade Secrets
What springs to mind when you think of the saying ‘trade secrets’? Is it of someone jealously guarding their skill or the secret to their success?
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What's in a name?
What’s in a name? There is currently much debate amongst the housing chattering classes, blog writers and internet comment leavers about whether social housing is a failing brand? For some, such discussion is proof enough that housing associations and others have moved way too far from their roots – talk of brand implies commercial interest…..…
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Domestic violence is much more than physical
When two women stand up and tell a room full of people that they have experienced domestic violence, the audience, myself included, begin to understand – perhaps really for the first time, what it can feel like. This reality was brought home to me at a recent talk by Solace Women’s Aid, a London based…
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