Compass West MIdlands
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009The new branch of Compass for the West Midlands is formally being launched this Saturday, 31st January, with a conference ‘After the Crash: Life in the 21st Century’. Speaker include Lynne Jones MP, debt campaigner Anne Pettifor (Advocacy International) and Andy Howell for Compass West Midlands.
The event will run from 11.00 am (10.30 arrival) [...]
Sustainable Communiites: Equity and Tenure
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009The recession and the credit crunch are wreaking havoc with the government’s long term policy to build more sustainable communities. Home ownership — and shared ownership — are at the centre of the policy. But as it becomes more difficult for the low paid to secure mortgages can we cast aside the nightmare of equity [...]
More PFI Woes
Monday, January 26th, 2009This blog has been writing on PFi for more than a year now. Last year I reported how brokers were finding it increasingly difficult to stack up any PFI deal worth over £30M. Well, it appears the rest of the media has caught up and this weekend there has been a flurry of activity about [...]
The Blog Returns!
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009It’s been quite a while since I posted anything of substance up here. But after something of a sabbatical this blog feels as if it could do with dusting down, a bit of a refresh and a re-launch. There are new areas that I want to explore with the blog, and new directions that I [...]
