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Homelessness, housing action; Housing management, tenants bodies;

Planning and Urban; Regeneration; Transport.

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Homelessness, Housing action

• Advisory Service for Squatters.
• Big Issue in the North.
• Crisis "helping solitary homeless people fulfil their potential and transform their lives."
• Empty Homes Agency Hotline 0870 901 6303. Monitors and informs relevant authorities about empty homes, campaigns to bring them back into use.
• Foyer Federation Foyers help over 10,000 young people every year to escape the "no home, no job, no home" cycle.
• Homeless Pages London focus, but its many links to relevant publications, sites etc apply widely.
• Homeless Link is the membership body for more than 700 agencies working with homeless people in England and Wales.
• Hostels Online.
• Housing Rights Information specifically aimed at answering housing rights queries for new migrants.
• National Association of Empty Property Practitioners.
• National Homeless Alliance. Phone 020 7833 2071, email: NHA@home-all.org.uk
• National Rent Deposit Forum represents local rent deposit schemes - web site disappeared Mar 07.
• National Sustainable Towerblocks Initiative.
• ROOM, the National Council for Housing and Planning "a unique forum bringing together all those involved in housing planning and regeneration on an equal footing, to share information, debate the issues, influence policy and contribute to best practice".
• Scottish Council for Single Homeless.
• Shelter.

Housing management, Tenants bodies

• Almshouses Association Provides advice and support to its membership of 1,750 almshouse charities.
• Communities Scotland oversees housing management and homelessness functions of Scottish local authorities and registered social landlords, alongside neighbourhood regeneration.
• Confederation of Co-operative Housing.
• Cymorth Cymru Voice of supported housing in Wales.
• ERoSH National Consortium for Sheltered Housing.
• The Glass House offers design courses, advice and support to tenants, residents and professionals working in neighbourhoods undergoing change and renewal.
• Housing Corporation Government funded agency which funds housing associations (Registered Social Landlords). Due to become part of new body Homes and Communities Agency December 08.
• Housing Rights Service Northern Ireland advice, training and information.
• Inside Housing The magazine for professionals, with much of the news and features available online.
• National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations (NFTMO).
• National Housing Federation The organisation for Registered Social Landlords. 175 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UP, phone 020 7278 6571, email: info@housing.org.uk
• National Tenants Resource Centre is based at Trafford Hall.
• SITRA Advice, info, training, consultancy for the supported housing sector.
• Supporting People The official site on supported housing funding.
• Tenants’ and Residents’ Organisations of England (TAROE).
• Tenant Participation Advisory Service for England - TPAS.

Urban/Planning

See Arts and Heritage for Historic Buildings.

• Civic Trust.
• Heritage Link - umbrella group for the sector.
• Human City Institute A consortium of organisations sharing the vision of turning 'the human city' into reality.
• Online Planning Aid "independent professional guidance and advice on Town Planning and related issues".
• Planning Portal is the governmental source of info.
• Royal Town Planning Institute.
• Sapling.info - Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway.
• Town and Country Planning Association.
• UKPlanning for planning services around the UK.
• Urban Forum - 'an umbrella body for community and voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially regeneration'.
• Women's Design Service 'Wide range of information and resources relating to the urban environment.'

Regeneration

Also see Social Economy, and Magazines.

• Active Partners Promoting community engagement in Regeneration in Yorks & Humber region.
• British Urban Regeneration Association A membership organisation, for the exchange of ideas, experience and information. Email: info@bura.org.uk
• Business in the Community has various Regeneration partnerships.
• Development Trusts Association is the community-based regeneration network, with practitioners/trusts as members, supporting the efficiency, effectiveness and growth of development trusts.
• Faith-based Regeneration Network.
• Regeneration-UK 'the regeneration information portal'.
• Regeneration East Midlands.
• The government's work on Regeneration is part of DCLG.
• Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum#.
• xPRESS Digest is an online/email round-up of regeneration news, connected with Ruralnet.

Transport

• HomeZones Creating residential streets where people take priority over cars.
• Living Streets has taken over from Pedestrians Association.
• Campaign for Better Transport (was Transport 2000) 'sustainable transport'. Streets for People and Platform (rail services) campaign networks.