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Social Landlords, their friends ... and others

Amicus have lots of great things to tell you about their group. I was especially eager to find out more about their exciting-sounding new Response information system but, sadly, the PDF brochure first failed to download and then crashed my browser.

Beth Johnson Housing Group is looking sharper and there is some genuinely useful information on the site (and some genuinely useless information).

Check out the Chartered Institute of Housing. I don't think the design works anymore - too cramped for comfort.

English Churches is still looking smart and professional - apart from the overlapping text on the home page. Not much happening though.

Have a peek at Hyde 'n' Seek - it started well but is now looking strangely neglected.

Housing Connections looks rather useful. Cooper Bassett have brought together links to news and research from other organisations in an easy to browse format. Job vacancies too.

Housing Net has a fantastic amount of information on all types of housing contacts. Still can't quite make up my mind who it is for.

You can apply for housing online at Liverpool Housing Trust but the design is sludgy and they ought to fix that persistent JavaScript error.

Hanover have good design and great content with minimum corporate puffery. And this was the first HA site I came across with current staff vacancies online. Nothing for their residents thought.

Magna Housing Association are trying something different with their eye catching Flash-based animated menu. It's fun at first but the novelty wears off fast. Thankfully they are now providing an alternative way around.

Maritime have a fine new site and it's chunky. There's also a link to a home sales site designed in Flash but I think we must assume that it is work in progress and come back another day.

All that seems to be new at North British Housing Association is their touting of properties to let. It is not exactly a hard sell: look out for the picture entitled 'Raeburn Tower Blocks Local Transport' and see if you feel enticed.

Peabody have one of the emptiest websites I have ever come across. There must be something interesting to find but after several pages of bland PR I lost the will to keep looking.

Real innovation at Residents Online - a entire web site set up for the tenants and residents of London & Quadrant Housing Trust. Lots of goodies, including a repair reporting service.

No prizes for guessing the navigational device favoured by Signpost for their site.

You can't fault Swan on their corporate image but it's hard to find a lot behind it. OK, that's not completely fair - the pages for tenants look quite promising even if currently underdeveloped.

That initial strobing gif at Westminster Short-Life lets you know what you are in for. A classic of its genre.

The National Housing Federation have caught the Flash bug but at least you can skip the pointless intro. A lot of thought must have gone into their new design, which, sad to say, I found confusing and unpleasant.

Now here's a surprise. The Housing Corporation are bucking the trend with a new site that is quite endearingly rough edged. Lots of broken links and a crowded and inconsistent design. Keep going and you will find loads of information. I like it.

Do get along to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. You can tap into all the masses of reports and research data they fund and it is easy to look around. Their 'Findings' reports are ideal for Web publication. And they give you lots of great tips on how to get one of their gigantic grants.

Communities Scotland is the replacement for what used to be Scottish Homes in the bad old days when Scotland languished under the iron yoke of Westminster. Definitely a different flavour from south of the border and more interesting contents that the average official site. Good design too.

The design could do with toning down but they definitely have the right idea at Staffordshire Housing Association with a site mostly devoted to providing information for tenants - and prospective tenants. There are details of homes and you can apply for housing online. Good stuff.

Tenant Management of Housing is part of Simon Godfrey's personal site and has lots of useful information not easily available elsewhere.

Tenants First Housing Co-operative prove once again that content rules. You don't need expensive web designers if you have clear, useful and relevant information and can present it in a straightforward way.

Hostels Online is a brilliant example of how useful the Web can be. It provides up to date information on vacancies that you could only previously obtain by ringing around individual hostels.

Got a complaint? You could try the Independent Housing Ombudsman Service. It's really simple. First check that your landlord is part of the scheme, then exhaust its complaints procedure, then you can fill in a handy online form...

Housing Today has a web site that deserves to be more successful than the paper seems to be. The design is effective and the site is easy to navigate.

Get the view from the bottom at ASS.

Inside Housing is clean, efficient and informative (but not especially entertaining).

Centrepoint have a site that tries both to be a fund raising tool and give useful information to young homeless people. It's close to succeeding but is over-designed for real ease of access.

The best bit at the National Homeless Alliance is the link to Groundswell (and on from there) but the Online Alliance stuff looks as if it could be an interesting development.

Shelter is looking very different from their first effort. More information, better presented and easier to find your way around. But thumbs down to the harsh page design.