Applying the mutuals model to social housing

If there is one thing that the discussion about the Big Society and the Government’s Open Public Services White Paper has done, it is to open up the ground for debate on a range of issues around public services and how they should be delivered. The words ‘mutuals’, ‘co-operatives’ and the ‘John Lewis model’ are now never too far away from the discussion, as this housing network blog about mutual housing demonstrates.