Housing, planning, transport

Homelessness, Housing action

• Advisory Service for Squatters; Squatters Action for Secure Homes (Squash).
• Big Issue in the North.
• Crisis “helping solitary homeless people fulfil their potential and transform their lives.”
• Action on Empty Homes Hotline 0870 901 6303. Monitors and informs relevant authorities about empty homes, campaigns to bring them back into use.
• Empty Homes Network – supporting the people who bring empty property back into use.
• Foyer Federation Foyers help over 10,000 young people every year to escape the “no home, no job, no home” cycle.
• Homeless Pages London focus, but its many links to relevant publications, sites etc apply widely.
• Homeless Link is the membership body for more than 700 agencies working with homeless people in England and Wales.
• Housing Rights Information specifically aimed at answering housing rights queries for new migrants.
• Homeless Action Scotland (previously Scottish Council for Single Homeless).
• Shelter.
• SHP provides accommodation and support services to Londoners who need support to live independently and inclusively in the community.

Housing management, Tenants bodies

• Almshouses Association Provides advice and support to its membership of 1,750 almshouse charities.
• Confederation of Co-operative Housing.
• Cymorth Cymru Voice of supported housing in Wales.
• Employers in Voluntary Housing.
• Erosh National Consortium for Sheltered Housing.
• The Glass House offers design courses, advice and support to tenants, residents and professionals working in neighbourhoods undergoing change and renewal.
• Homes and Communities Agency funds housing associations (Registered Social Landlords).
• Housing Rights Service Northern Ireland advice, training and information.
• Inside Housing The magazine for professionals, with much of the news and features available online.
• National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations (NFTMO).
• National Housing Federation The organisation for Registered Social Landlords. 175 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UP, phone 020 7278 6571, email: info@housing.org.uk
• Self-Help Housing
• National Tenants Resource Centre is based at Trafford Hall.
• Supported Housing Alliance Advice, info, training, consultancy for the supported housing sector.
• Tenants’ and Residents’ Organisations of England (TAROE).
• Tenant Participation Advisory Service for England – TPAS.

Urban/Planning

See Arts and Heritage for Historic Buildings.

• Civic Voice is the replacement for the Civic Trust national body.
• Human City Institute A consortium of organisations sharing the vision of turning ‘the human city’ into reality.
• Planning Portal is the governmental source of info.
• Royal Town Planning Institute.
• Town and Country Planning Association.

Rural, Land Reform

• ACRE – Action with Communities in Rural England.
• Arkleton Trust.
• Arthur Rank Centre (Germinate) is a focus and resource for the work of the Christian Churches in rural areas.
• Countryside and Community Research Institute.
• Food and Farming Futures.
• Scottish Rural Network For Scotland, from SCVO.
• Land Action Scotland ‘Reclaiming the Land for the People’
• Rural Community Network Northern Ireland’s version.
• Community Shops, a project of the Plunkett Foundation, supporting rural areas to develop community-owned shops.
• Rural Cultural Forum “a coalition of grassroots rural and farming community organisations, and professionals from the arts, design and rural media sectors”.

Regeneration

Also see Social Economy, and Magazines.

• Business in the Community has various Regeneration partnerships (aka Community Transformation).
• Locality incorporates the Development Trusts Association, the community-based regeneration network. The Scottish DTA continues.
• Faith-based Regeneration Network.
• Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum.

Transport

• HomeZones Creating residential streets where people take priority over cars.
• Living Streets, previously known as Pedestrians Association.
• Campaign for Better Transport – ‘sustainable transport’. Streets for People and Platform (rail services) campaign networks.

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