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CCH Bulletin Winter 2008

The Newsletter of the Co-operative and Mutual Housing Sector in England and Wales.

In this issue :

The way ahead
The last time we published a newsletter, a new housing minister had just been appointed, and the banks were still merrily lending to anyone who could spell their names.
Commission on a mission
It's got to be the best opportunity we have had since the 1980s to develop the co-operative housing sector. Set up by various partners, including the CCH, the Commission for Co-operative & Mutual Housing (CCMH) was launched at the Co-operative Congress event in Blackpool in June 2008.
Sanford Housing Co-op wins award
Sanford Housing Co-operative has won housing trade magazine Inside Housing's prestigious national award for the most sustainable affordable housing refurbishment project in 2008.
A tale of two co-ops: CCH to the rescue!
The CCH is happy to report that our new support service for housing co-ops has led to two co-ops getting back on track. Both co-ops came to us with governance problems relating to committee member disputes, so serious that their committees had stopped working properly and the co-ops had become a cause for concern to the Housing Corporation.
Crunchtime!
When we published our last newsletter, everything was fine and dandy. Banks were lending to everyone like there was no tomorrow. Ambitious house building targets had been set, and all over the country, housing associations and private developers were plopping up brave new housing schemes! New home owners were sailing off into the sunset on the back of ever growing shared ownership schemes. And just because some northern bank had got itself into trouble, nobody ever thought that the sun would ever set on the UK housing empire (apart from the ordinary citizen on the street who always knew you couldn't keep lending people five or six times their salary for it not to all blow apart).
Voices, I hear voices
Just under one hundred delegates gathered at the CCH's 2008 annual conference at the Natonal Communities Resource Centre, Trafford Hall near Chester in July. Delegates heard inspirational addresses from home and abroad.
The Tenant Services Authority - a national conversation
We asked Peter Marsh, the Chief Executive of the new Tenant Services Authority, what their plans are for the future. This is what he told us...
The CCH General Council grows again

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