Housing associations and their track records are under fire across the political spectrum. From the right come suggestions that housing associations concentrate unemployment and benefit dependency in their neighbourhoods, failing to transform the lives of those they support. From the left, they have been accused of wheeling and dealing in the business world, behaving like private landlords and becoming disconnected from their communities.
A closer look at these accusations bears little scrutiny; housing associations retain their commitment to disadvantaged communities and seek to transform the lives and life chances of local people – despite being asked to behave more commercially, improve the value for money of our work and sweat our assets.
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