At the recent Community Resilience Summit at City Hall - where I had the chance to listen in with two hats on, representing Pineapple Partnerships alongside my voluntary work with the environmental charity EcoJudaism - one question kept surfacing. Everyone is talking about resilience as the climate crisis accelerates, but what does it actually mean in practice on the ground? I came away with a clearer sense of what is missing. We have plenty of risk registers, and plenty of p

I once read an article called Three things football can learn from rugby. I loved the premise: two sectors with plenty of differences, but enough in common that they could look across at each other and steal with pride. It made me think about social housing and commercial real estate. Both own and manage large property portfolios. Both face rising costs, ageing assets, decarbonisation pressures and increasing expectations from customers. And both need to find ways of investin

Every year, Israel does something that is, when you think about it, emotionally extraordinary. Yom Hazikaron — Memorial Day — is one of the most solemn days in the Jewish calendar: the country stops, sirens wail across cities and motorways, families grieve publicly and together, and the full, unmediated weight of loss is held without flinching. And then, at nightfall, it becomes Yom Ha'atzmaut — Independence Day — and the streets fill with fireworks and dancing and a joy that

On 5th March 2025, Pineapple CoRE hosted a panel at Sustainability Live: Net Zero Summit. Featuring leaders from DCC Energy GB, Schneider Electric and Signify, the discussion moved beyond the "why" of sustainability and into the "how" of commercial success.

The Regulator of Social Housing’s Sector Risk Profile is rarely described as a page-turner, but the latest edition contains a figure that should make every housing association boardroom sit up. For the first time since the financial crisis in 2008, interest cover (EBITDA MRI) has fallen to 87%. Source: Gov.UK 2025 Global Account of private registered providers In other words, the sector is currently spending more on interest and maintenance than it is bringing in. The finan