Beyond decent homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond decent homes write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee. This book was released on 2010-03-23. Beyond decent homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Incorporating HC 1054-i-ii-iii, session 2008-09
Beyond Decent Homes
Beyond Decent Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Decent Homes write by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Communities and Local Government Committee. This book was released on 2010. Beyond Decent Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond Decent Homes
Beyond Decent Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Decent Homes write by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Communities and Local Government Committee. This book was released on 2010. Beyond Decent Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond decent homes
Beyond decent homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond decent homes write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee. This book was released on 2010-03-23. Beyond decent homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The £40bn Decent Homes Programme has had a positive effect on the living conditions of most social housing tenants, this report finds, but the Government has failed to invest enough resources in the parallel programme to improve homes occupied by vulnerable people in the private sector. The Government must also clarify future funding: it is still unclear how the elimination of the remaining backlog of disrepair (around 3 per cent of social homes) will be funded; and how much will be available to maintain standards in the future. The Government must prevent another backlog of disrepair from building up after the current programme comes to an end in 2010. Carbon emissions reduction targets mean that the entire UK housing stock must be made more energy efficient. The decent homes standard has an important part to play and should be updated to enable this. The use of arm's-length management organisations (ALMOs) to manage council housing has led to improved standards and better planning, though not all councils were able to follow this model. The decent homes standard remains a low benchmark, however. The target for decency applied to private housing should be retained and strengthened by creating a National Indicator for private sector accommodation. A clear long term target should be set at a national level to bring all private sector homes (not just those occupied by vulnerable people) up to the decent homes standard.
Beyond the Valley
Beyond the Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Valley write by Ramesh Srinivasan. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Beyond the Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America, and elsewhere, visiting the “design labs” of rural, low-income, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.
