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Priced out of travelling to work
Travelling to find work is rendered unaffordable by high rents, a campaign group has warned. Priced Out, which makes the case for lower-cost housing,…
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Topping the pole for digital inclusion
The housing sector could do more to incorporate the voice of residents into its use of digital technology, a report has found. Consultancy Visceral…
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Unintended benefit cuts
Councils are cutting off housing benefit payments to tenants who are entitled to receive them, as an unintended consequence of sanctions applied to other…
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Debate over bedrrom tax loophole
Housing experts are split over how many tenants they think could temporarily escape the bedroom tax as a result of a technical error by…
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Bedroom tax loophole to close in March 2014
The minister for welfare reform Lord Freud has confirmed that the housing benefit loophole that exempts certain long standing tenants from the bedroom tax will be…
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CIH consider where Housing is headed
It’s two years since the UK government published its “ambitious” housing strategy Laying the Foundations, and we are now 18 months ahead of the General…
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Complaints advice
This useful information is helpful in guiding landlords and designated panels to be more effective in their work. How do I handle complaints effectively…
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New research looking at the social and digital activity of 275 housing associations that represent 2.6m homes in the UK studied their levels of digital and…
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Substandard accommodation to asylum seekers
The National Audit Office has today published its report examining the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers and their families. The report stems from concerns, by…
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Equality Briefing
Here is the latest from HDN. Have you entered the DNA race yet? ebriefing-january-2014 …
