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How good are you fraud checks?
More than one in four social landlords are currently approving Right to Buy property purchases without validating applications – while more than half of…
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HCA to instgate tougher regulation on those with 1000+ homes
The English social housing regulator is set to review current rules limiting tougher regulation to housing associations with more than 1,000 homes. According to…
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HA deregulation
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has announced details of a deregulation package that he hopes will allow housing associations to move back into the private…
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Downgrade for lack of audit planning
Flagship Housing Group, which owns 22,000 homes, has received a ‘G2’ rating, which means it complies with Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) standards but…
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Procurement rules to change in 2016
On 24 November 2015, the European Commission set out the new minimum financial thresholds for contracts caught by the application of EU public procurement…
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HCA comment on regulating mergers
The Homes and Communities Agency will rely more heavily on regulatory judgements and downgrades to regulate merger activity after it is stripped of much…
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Court could be brought in as administer for HAs in difficulty
The chair of the Homes and Communities Agency regulation committee said the change was being considered as part of a deregulatory package being drawn…
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Housing Minister keen to work with HAs to enable deregulatory measures
Greg Clark will work with the housing association sector to create a “package” of deregulatory measures to bring associations back off the national balance…
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Quality of new homes – HCA report
Each year the HCA carry out a resident survey on the quality and design of homes funded under the Affordable Homes Programme. The latest…
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HAs reclassified as public bodies
English housing associations are part of the public sector for the purposes of national accounts, The news came in a review by the Office for…
