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Z2K Housing Review Issue One April 2009
Z2K Housing Review Issue One April 2009: "Looking Down the Wrong End of the Telescope."

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What can we do to produce an holistic housing policy?
Professor Peter Ambrose, Paul Nicolson, Stephen Hill and Adrian Cooper met on Friday 27th March 2009 to have a round table discussion about the problems facing housing policy in this country. This discussion provides an insight into the issues facing builders, planners and policy making in the UK today. This group represents a very powerfully informed set of opinions on housing.

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An Interview with Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill has worked in housing planning for over thirty years. He has experience in infrastructure development, has been involved with government policy and worked as a consultant in a variety of ground breaking projects. The insight he brings to the housing debate is equally measured and critical, at times in this interview his opinions leave the viewer shaking their head in disbelief at the poor outcomes which result from expensive investment.

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An Interview with Adrian Cooper of Team Homes
TEAM Limited Creating sustainable communities of housing in the places where people want to live and work, now and in the future. The words 'ethical' and 'property company' aren't often found together. However, that is one thing which we are trying to change. We are providing high quality homes at low cost. We respect people and the environment.And we are using innovative methods to provide the much needed housing that the rest of the industry seems either unable or unwilling to provide. We hope that you will work with us to make 'The Ethical Property Company' a reality.

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An interview with Alex Tuck
Alex Tuck is a consumer of mortgage products and he relates the experience of those who have had to navigate the minefield of those contracts. What makes this interview fascinating is that Alex put a lot of time and personal research into the mortgage contracts he chose. Additionally, he has lived in France and Spain and is able to relate the difference in approach on the continent, testimony from first hand experience. In his professional capacity he has also come across some of the players in the process of financial lending and his own personal opinions on such as the FSA reveal something of the incredulity a lot of home owners now feel at what happened in the housing market in 2008.

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An interview with Father John
Father John is the parish priest at St Mary's Battersea in London. He has worked with London Citizens and the Z2K Trust on trying to improve the lot of people within his parish who suffer from poor housing. This view of people who are too readily cast aside within policy making decisions is crucial to understand the depth of suffering and poverty that is created by the lack of an holistic housing policy.

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An interview with John Jackson
John Jackson grew up in Chelsea and in this interview he discusses the impact on communities when wealth is allowed to "buy wholesale" specific environments. This is a view of what is lost to people and families when there is an absence of an holistic policy.

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An interview with Mr Nakamura of Misawa Homes, Tokyo.
This interview is in Japanese and was made in December 2008. There will be a transcript available in due course. The importance of this testimony cannot be overlooked. Misawa Homes are a serious player in the manufacture of homes in Japan. They were happy for us to discuss with them the techniques they employ in industrial manufacture to meet the needs of the Japanese population. This interview demonstrates the Z2K Housing Review's commitment to seek solutions wherever they may be found and to understand that in our global identity we cannot afford to be looking down the wrong end of the telescope.

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Paul Nicolson talks about Z2K
As this is the first of the Z2K Housing Review we felt it would be very useful to understand the work of this charity and the incredible impact it has managed to achieve in so many areas of policy to do with poverty. Poor housing produces poverty and tremendous cost to the tax payer, Paul Nicolson discusses some of the issues that make an holistic housing policy not only necessary but socially and financially sensible.

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