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Community standards

Inside Housing / Social Housing offers a place for housing professionals to discuss and debate, to connect with peers, and to share knowledge and resources. We strongly encourage readers to build their profile and to comment using real names. We believe this is important to promoting honest and open debate and we think it benefits users by helping you to identify like-minded peers.

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We encourage constructive and challenging debate: we welcome polite informed debate and reasoned criticism that genuinely seeks to challenge perceptions and develop thinking in the sector. We encourage concise and focused comments because these are most conducive to generating debate and conversation. Please maintain respect and courtesy for other site users at all times: by all means attack arguments and ideas, but not people. Hostile or insulting messages, or attacks on individuals (either those mentioned in an article or fellow commenters) is not permitted. Please be aware that that you may be misunderstood or tone may be misinterpreted and give others the benefit of the doubt.

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