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What can we learn from Octavia Hill to fix the housing crisis?
Octavia Hill, a visionary in her time with her mission to ‘make lives noble, homes happy and family life good’. A message I fear means very little to some organisations today.
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Should the North try a Universal Basic Income?
Throughout July we held a series of online Digital ThinkIn’s in partnership with Tortoise. The final in our series looked at Universal Basic Income in a conversation titled ‘Should the North try a Uni...
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An impossible bind – single parent families and Universal Credit
It is with considerable frustration that I am adding to the mountain of words written to plead with the Department for Work and Pensions for a pause and a rethink about the extent and the impact of Un...
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How Doncaster is turning around its economic fortunes
The 2016 edition of our Good Growth for Cities series highlighted Doncaster as one of the fastest improving cities in the index. In this blog, we look at the initiatives put in place to bring about th...
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Can a People's Powerhouse better support people into work?
Personally I’ve never been convinced by arguments that economic growth always benefits everybody in a community. Lots of studies have shown that not to be the case, as has my own first hand experience...
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People regeneration is as important as place regeneration
As I write it is a year since the UK voted by a slim margin to leave the EU; the Conservative government has pledged £1b to the DUP to support a confidence and supply deal that may or may not keep it ...
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