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Housing market renewal

By: Series: Regeneration and Renewal ; 30 January 2004Publication details: 2004Subject(s): Summary: Evaluates the progress of the government's Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme a year after its launch. The pathfinders are strategic organisations set up to transform estates dogged by low demand into places where people would once again choose to live. Considers whether the lessons learnt from previous regeneration strategies have been learnt and incorporated in the pathfinder schemes. Surveys a range of schemes such as Black Patch in Smethwick and looks at the role of wholesale demolition in the revamping process.

Evaluates the progress of the government's Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme a year after its launch. The pathfinders are strategic organisations set up to transform estates dogged by low demand into places where people would once again choose to live. Considers whether the lessons learnt from previous regeneration strategies have been learnt and incorporated in the pathfinder schemes. Surveys a range of schemes such as Black Patch in Smethwick and looks at the role of wholesale demolition in the revamping process.