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Community Development: Making a Difference in Social Housing
Community Development Making a Difference in Social Housing Author:Lucy Gaster, Tricia Zipfel, Richard Crossley Social housing - housing associations in particular - are taking on the "Housing Plus" agenda, changing the focus from "property" to "people" in order to understand and respond to residents' needs. The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust has been pursuing this agenda since 1996, appointing a community development worker in early 1997. This report foll... more »ows the progress of this arrangement over the first three years and explores different models for working with communities to improve services and include the excluded. It evaluates the processes, outputs and outcomes, as well as the "added value" and the costs and benefits of community development.« less