sink estates

Government efforts to tackle poverty won’t succeed if it neglects ‘place poverty’ – RTPI

11.05.2016

Laura Edgar

Community Engagement | England | Housing | Infrastructure | poverty | Regeneration | RTPI | sink estates | trudi elliott | UK

The RTPI is warning today that many national and local policies are failing to reduce poverty because they ignore how well-planned local environments with good services and transport can help lift people out of poverty.
Heseltine launches estates regeneration panel

10.02.2016

Laura Edgar

Brandon Lewis | David Cameron | Housing | Lord Heseltine | Regeneration | sink estates | UK

A panel of experts has been convened to consider how the layout of housing estates can best be used to deliver more quality homes available for rent and buy.
Government urged to turn around ‘sink’ estates within 10 years

22.08.2014

Marino Donati

Estate We're In | Housing | Policy Exchange | Regeneration | sink estates | Social infrastructure | UK

The UK’s social housing estates are a “national embarrassment” and the government should pledge to fix them in a decade, according to a think tank report.