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Shortlife (1988 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Focuses on short-life housing - what it means, the condition of the property, the effects of living in secure accommodation and the need for ‘move on’ housing. Examines the situation in Camden as typical...

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Housing shortage in Brixton (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Chairman of the Federation of Housing Associations George Barlow about housing shortage in Brixton and belief poor housing was a contributory factor in the Brixton race riot. Following his...

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210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home (1983)

210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home. Presented by B.J. [?] Track 1- At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the average life expectancy in Britain was 50 years. In contemporary times it...

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Edward du Cann on investigation of housing associations (1978)

Genre

Interview

Conservative MP Edward du Cann on the investigation by the Committee of Public Accounts of housing associations. Cann insists that Parliament must be aware of how taxpayers’ money is being spent but that...

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Row over GLC housing association loans (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified spokesman (poss. David Ashby, housing chairman) for the Conservative-led Greater London Council on the loan of public funds to unregistered housing associations. Male interviewer not identified...

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Camden Housing Association events week (1982)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female representative of Camden Housing Association on a week of events to get more people into housing. Male interviewer not identified.

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Housing bill defeated (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour MP Ann Taylor, on a defeat for the Government’s Housing and Building Control Bill intended to give tenants of charitable housing trusts the right to buy their rented properties....

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Police involvement in Strongbridge case (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview about the decision by Andrew Arden, leading the GLC inquiry into councillors’ involvement with housing associations, to hand his findings on the Strongbridge Housing Association to the police....

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GLC housing association inquiry (1982)

Genre

News report

Report on the announcement by Andrew Arden, the barrister leading the GLC inquiry into councillors’ involvement with housing associations, that criminal offences may have been committed by Conservative...

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Housing association report launched by Archbishop of York (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Phil Edwards reports on the report launched by the Archbishop of York Dr John Hapgood, which draws attention to the reduction in the relative level of government funding given to housing associations in the...

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