Here is the full story of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's meeting with residents, housing leaders and @placeshapers in Hemel Hempstead to hear first-hand how housing associations are helping to create warmer, greener homes and lower energy bills.
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👉🏿 We welcome measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis and removing the two child benefit cap.
👉🏿 We're concerned that the LHA freeze is pushing people into unnecessary hardship.
#UKHousing #Budget2025 #UnfreezeLHA @RachelReevesMP
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📢 New report
🙏🏽 'Realising The Potential of Housing Associations in Communities and Place' analyses housing associations' role in delivering a decade of national renewal.
Start with a short video... lnkd.in/e2ERmPJ3
#PlaceShapers #UKHousing
🧐Keep an eye on your inbox, our latest update from CEO @CatherineRyder has just landed!
Featuring reflections of what physical place-shaping means in practice and looking at what's coming up at #placeshapers
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Good to see the government share their ambitions...and we strongly welcome the emphasis on social rent in the new programme.
Our response from @CatherineRyder to @mhclg @AngelaRayner @mtpennycook announcement.
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'Talk of a new golden era for social housing is music to the ears of anyone who believes that everyone deserves to live in a place they can call home.'
Our Chair, Matthew is speaking tomorrow at #Housing2025
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Stability, investment, national renewal.
Today is a very significant landmark in addressing a housing crisis generations in the making.
Thank you to members whose insight and evidence informed our #SpendingReview submission to @hmtreasury
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☀️Today we launch our new summer of learning.
Dozens of members are lined up to share their experience through study visits, webinars, case studies and new resources.
Be involved
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💯Delighted to welcome Black Country Housing Group as a member.
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Broad perspective in @insidehousing by @JennyMessenger_
.@CatherineRyder describes a ‘let’s make this happen’ approach from @HomesEngland and associations.
West Kent HA gives insight into how they are moving ahead with homebuilding.
#Regeneration
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🎬That's a wrap! 🎬
We are pleased to announce the premiere
of our activity over the last 12 months.
Told though a series of short films & featuring a stellar cast of our fabulous board members & team.
📽️ Head over to website to view our debut!📽️
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Yesterday we had the privilege of visiting Aspire Housing with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, and the local MP, Adam Jogee. Great to see place-shaping in action and talk through our Spending Review asks.
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🌸Welcome!
"A positive step towards Saffron providing every tenant with the best possible home and service."
.@SaffronHousing describe why they have re-joined #PlaceShapers.
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How do we make the economic case for investing public money in housing-led #regeneration as well as new social housing?
Our chair Matthew Walker shows how in @insidehousing
.@HomesEngland @hmtreasury @NAOorguk
#UKHousing #SpendingReview
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🌸Spring Statement
👏🏽 £2bn recognises need to maintain delivery ahead of new programme in the #SpendingReview.
📣 We urge a focus on the critical role of housing-led regen to make a decade of national renewal a reality.
#UKHousing @mhclg @HomesEngland
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💯Very welcome - and an indicator of the step-change needed to deliver 1.5m home?
Our Spending Review submission sets out the 5 ways HAs can support Govt ambitions on housing, economic growth and national renewal.
@mhclg #UKHousing
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Cash boost of £350m will help build 1000s more affordable and social homes.
This will help people secure their own home and get families off waiting lists.
Our Plan for Change will drive economic growth, increase living standards and build 1.5 million homes.
ALT Image of houses in the background with the words: Just announced. Cash boost for 1000s more affordable homes.
📢 @placeshapers submission to the government’s 2025 Spending Review sets out how our members can contribute as fully as possible to the ambition to build 1.5 million homes.
Thank you to all our members who contributed.
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We are really looking forward to welcoming @placeshapers member chairs and chief executives to our New Year's Leader's event in London next week, to come together, talk, network, learn and be inspired.
#Connect #Communciate #Collaborate #PlaceShapers
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"Help people in need move out of poor-quality, unregulated private renting into secure, sustainable and affordable homes."
Thanks to board member @JoGreatwell for evidencing local rent convergence impact in @insidehousing.
@RSHEngland @greatwellhomes
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Our CEO @CatherineRyder was pleased to contribute an opinion piece to @natfednews #PlanForHousing series. You can read Catherine's blog in full here 👇
"For too long housing associations and local authorities have had to piece together bits of funding to do what they can to create not just great homes, but places where people want to live."
@placeshapers for our #PlanForHousing series
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ALT “If the government can be persuaded to think long-term and outside of departmental silos, then we have a chance at convincing them that regeneration should be a key feature of their Housing Strategy and an important response to the housing crisis in many parts of the country.” - Catherine Ryder, Chief Executive