Housing, planning, transport - Contents
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.”
- Empty Homes Agency 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.
- 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.
