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A New Deal for Tenants Report
This report is being launched in September. The report assesses the extent of inequality between social housing tenants and home owners and recommends ways in which levels of well-being might be improved in social housing by creating a ‘quasi-equity share’ account for all existing tenants to increase asset ownership in the sector without requiring tenants to move into unsustainable home ownership. |
Equal Lives Report
The focus of the report is inequalities in health experienced by Birmingham’s Asian communities in terms of mortality and morbidity rates, life expectancy and access to health services. The report maps such inequalities against the backdrop of socio-economic and multiple deprivation and the role of geographical communities and communities of interest in the creation and perpetuation of inequalities in health. To be launched in September. |
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Commission on Co-operative & Mutual Housing Launched
HCi has launched a major research project and range of promotional activities along with partners Accord Housing Group, the Confederation of Co-operative Housing, CDS Co-operatives, Co-operatives UK, Hanover Housing Group, HACT, the Matrix Housing Partnership. Research is being undertaken by HCi and CURS, University of Birmingham. The Commission is taking evidence across the country from interested parties. |
HCi AGM
HCi’s 11th Annual General Meeting was held in March at the Grange Hill Surgery in Kings Norton. The AGM considered a range of issues including a new Constitution for HCi, the potential for an ‘International Links’ sister charity, and future business planning. The AGM also discussed expanding the membership of the charity and the sorts of services subscribers should receive. The AGM was followed by a Board of Trustees ‘away-day’ to flesh-out key issues. |
E-Bulletin & Human City Headlines Launched
HCi launched its first e-bulletin after the turn of the year to provide interested parties and subscribers with an overview of HCi’s progress and activities. The e-bulletin will be published quarterly from 2008 onwards. Human City Headlines is one of a forthcoming series of summary publications on major human city issues. The first was about affordable housing. The second will be about health inequalities and the Asian community. |
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Hills, Cave & After: Renewing Social Housing Report
Written by Alan Murie of CURS, University of Birmingham, Bob Pocock of M-E-L Research and HCi Director Kevin Gulliver, with a Foreword by NHF Chief Executive David Orr, the report fills in the gaps left by the recent Hills and Cave reviews of social housing, and promotes a more positive agenda and future for the sector. This report was supported by the Matrix Housing Partnership, M-E-L Research and SWS Communications. |
The Unexpected Community: The Needs & Aspiration’s of Birmingham’s Somali Community Report
Supported by Trident Housing Association and a fledging Somali housing group called AMANA, this report provides an overview of the needs and future requirements of one the UK’s recently arrived migrant groups. The report was written by HCi associate and DCLG Expert Housing Panel member, Adrian Jones and is part of HCI’s ‘No Community Left Behind’ research strand. |
Breaking the Mould of Regeneration Report
Compiled by former Director and HCi Founder, Professor David Clark this report was published to celebrate HCi’s 10th Anniversary in Summer 2007. The report provides an overview of the legacy of HCi and its approach as a charitable, faith-based initiative, and points the way for the future as a charitable yet more secular research ‘think tank’. |
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