Place management and housing: Insights and future directions

Housing in Ancoats, Manchester. Photo by Matt from Manchester, England – Flash Ancoats, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3549444

by James Scott Vandeventer, Tom Hindmarch and Steve Millington

The ‘Transforming Places from the Inside Out’ conference, sponsored by One Manchester (an IPM Partner), took place at The Studio in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on the 18th November 2019. The conference included talks from a host of experts, including IPM’s own Dr Steve Millington, as well as discussions with social housing providers and other stakeholders. The day centred on the challenges and opportunities the social housing sector faces as it increasingly adopts a place focus. Throughout, a fruitful dialogue about the intersection of place and housing generated a palpable sense that the emerging housing-place nexus is here to stay, and highlighted some areas that place management can contribute to thinking about place in the housing sector moving forward.

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