Ian Cole

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Ian Cole

Ian Cole

@profiancole

Chair at @syorksha Professor of Housing at @cresr_shu Father of five somehow, partner of Kesia and long term supporter of decent social housing and Man U.

Sheffield, England Katılım Kasım 2017
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Ian Cole
Ian Cole@profiancole·
Evisceration of Theresa Mays Brexit strategy by Anthony Hilton , veteran economics and business journalist. Doomed from the moment she named her red lines at Tory conference in 2016 - which totally surprised her advisers and horrified EU. @natfedevents
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
NHF Board members conference. The three big issues that have emerged from discussions with tenants about the future of regulation ?1. Sanctions and UC. 2. The stigma of being a social housing tenant. 3. Antipathy to landlord league tables - ‘pointless and tell you little’ Yes!
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A collectors item, probably. I am retweeting a Daily Mail article....
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
@insidehousing @BBCNews @Benefit2Society A comment plucked straight from the top drawer of lazy pernicious stereotypes. Perhaps the reporter in question should take a week off visiting social housing estates across the country. I am sure I and @TonyStacey would give him/her a warm welcome in South Yorkshire
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Bernadette Meaden
Bernadette Meaden@BernaMeaden·
'agricultural land now becomes 275 times more expensive once it receives planning permission, even before a single home is built' Landowners in England made £13 billlion profit in 2016/17 ekklesia.co.uk/node/26814 via @ekklesia_co_uk
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Half an hour into her job and Kate Henderson identifies that the main factor to increase the supply of social homes is to capture land values. And she gets a round of applause, I’m glad to say. And more concise than some of the other speakers!
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
25 years ago I wrote a book with Rob Furbey in praise of council housing. Somewhat against the trend. We wanted a picture of a new semi detached council house in Sheffield on the cover. The publishers rejected it because ‘it didn’t look like council housing. ‘ plus ca change...
See The Person@2BenefitSociety

If the @BBCNews thinks that all social housing are in sink hole estates perhaps we should show them why we are so proud of our homes.

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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Good chat with Michael Chandler of Cardboard Citizens who did some great work with #syha last year. Their current work is inspired by Tony Parker’s brilliant book People of Providence, written over 30 years ago and now back in the limelight!
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Attended a session on barriers to housing supply which somehow failed to mention the business model of volume house builders in which profits increase exponentially while completions increase marginally. A steady trend since 2010. The barrier that daren’t speak its name here?
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Listening to Michael Heseltine at NHF conference throwing back the years and giving the Treasury a good kicking for the drift to hypothecated spend, arguing the case for Development Corporations and crucially for capping land values. Maybe his time will come...
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Crisis
Crisis@crisis_uk·
1/2 Theresa May’s pledge of £2bn to build new homes in England is welcome news so long as future governments honour this, says our chief exec @Jon_Sparkes. But we must be clear, while this is a good start, these measures are not enough to end homelessness in England. #NHF18
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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Land is often the forgotten issue in debates about the housing crisis and affordability so great to see it highlighted. The scale of windfall profits going to landowners is often staggering. Time that was changed.
Growth and Reform Network@GrowthandReform

Launched in partnership with @NatFedNews, we are calling for an overhaul of land law, so profit can be put to use funding infrastructure and affordable housing. Our report: progressive-policy.net/2018/09/gather… #NHF18

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Ian Cole@profiancole·
Historically housing market change has often been provoked as much by the unintended as the intended outcomes of government policies. Initiatives like Help to Buy and stamp duty changes can have an impact rather different from that initially envisaged.
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