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OK, yes service charges on shared ownership properties are unfair (own 25%, pay 100% of service charge) and can be grotesque. But SHAC's suggested legal action is a complete non-starter (and their previous suggestion of a service charge strike ridiculously risky.) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Residents trapped with service charges of up to £8,000 a year to take legal action against government. #sharedownership www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Problems with uncontrollable service charges, poor doors and unequal access built into leases accepted by associations evident for years. #sharedownership www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

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A new must-read: time to rediscover the merits of housing as, well, a merit good; and not a moment too soon. Absolutely the right time to ‘disrupt policy approaches and rethink what housing is’!

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New blog on social housing affordability assessments and new technologies of risk profiling from Code Encounters project @nuffieldfoundation.org @uoysbs.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social www.campbelltickell.com/ctbrief/issu...

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Meanwhile housing benefit is frozen in cash terms - meaning it's falling in real terms by these levels

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"Mean-spirited commentators spent so long treating Milton Keynes as a punchline, in fact, that many of them seem to have missed the fact the place has been a huge success..." On what works, and what didn't, about Britain's new towns.

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Read it 👇🏾

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“Gaines said one HUD office that could lose most of its employees manages programs on homelessness, affordable housing and disaster recovery. Another enforces civil rights laws, and a third provides research on housing issues and HUD programs.”

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Sobering read in @timeshighered.bsky.social from the frontline of academia in the face of the redundancy crisis, including @academicdiary.bsky.social on the urgent need for repair amidst unprecedented fear and insecurity among colleagues www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

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43% of tenants regularly ran out of money before their next wage or benefit payment.

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AI doesn't want you to live there! Read the terrifying piece by @rogerjburrows.bsky.social on @platformspace.bsky.social this week, to see how #algorithmicsystems impact the rental market #eigencapital #rentalmarkets #risk-profiling #tenancy

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As someone who has taken redundancy recently, it’s good to see the HSA making this statement about the sorry state of HE. www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/hou...

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I’m researching ways that digital technologies are impacting renters and housing justice in Australia. I’m looking for participants! If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ or ‘Landlord Tech’ - I want to speak with you! More info and EOI here: www.samanthafloreani.com/research

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New paper looking at how social class is conceptualised in influential theories of the asset economy. ‘Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism’, Thesis Eleven, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0725...

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What is the evidence on the impact of cash transfers for children in addressing poverty? Looking forward to discussing this today with @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @emmatominey.bsky.social @cpaguk.bsky.social Thanks to @financialfairness.bsky.social for making it possible

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Having gone through a full year of 'voluntary' redundancies (read 'voluntary' as 'strongly encouraged under the looming threat of compulsory severances'), which have seen >5% of staff leave my uni, it's good to see this issue finally getting some press. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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New 📝 from me: For @theleaduk.bsky.social I spoke to shared owners who can't sell their high-spec flats because of a legal clause that means they shoulder ALL the risk when the housing market dips. Are these homes a "toxic asset"? You decide national.thelead.uk/p/toxic-asse...

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NRx critique from back in the day when few folk knew what the hell we were talking about: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Start off your week strong by reading "Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania" by Alexandra Ciocanel in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/sea2...

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Yikes… forget being human(e), you’re just a risky figure (kind of thing) - read this if you’re wondering how the private rented sector is shaping up www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New ECR post doc opportunity in housing, made possible by Housing Studies Charitable Trust. Closing date 31 March 2025. www.thornbyassociates.co.uk/latest-news/...

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New paper from @nuffieldfoundation.org funded CODE ENCOUNTERS project. Explores digital tenant referencing in private rented housing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New editorial in the International Journal of Housing Policy: Housing as an engine of inequality and the role of policy. With @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and Megan Nethercote www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This new comparative (DE, BE, FR, SK) paper by Furtado and Flynn in IJCS finds that 'homeownership polarizes young adults in terms of welfare support. Housing unaffordability, however, coalesces young homeowners and renters by increasing redistribution support.' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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We are not going to meet any housing number targets whilst building affordable housing in the capital is so systemically impaired. And your periodic reminder that the housing crisis is an affordability crisis and so public/social housing surge essential.

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... We have to break with the Thatcherite fiction that social housing is inefficient, rewards laziness and causes social harm, as Becky Tunstall (read The Fall and Rise of Council Housing) argues, social housing reduces housing inequalities in a way nothing else does.

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Monzo offer humorous analysis of customers’ current account spending, but what if similar analysis and inferences of open banking data influences your chance of getting a home? See our Code Encounters findings . www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Fascinating/disturbing example of the new data politics shaping housing inequalities with applications in and beyond cities

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Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me

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‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen

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This week's English Housing Survey shows the differences in wellbeing of people in different housing situations. But the average homeowner is demographically, financially, etc different from the average local authority tenant. So can we isolate the effect of housing on your wellbeing? 1/3

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LOVE all things @geteach.com , but also the site featured in this project Unequal Scenes: unequalscenes.com/projects

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Our @nuffieldfoundation.org CODE ENCOUNTERS study looked at digital tools that govern access to housing. See overarching and tenure based findings here. www.york.ac.uk/chp/housing-...

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