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Governance – 5 steps to Board Member choice
Governance is changing in housing organisations. Rather than board members being gatekeepers who pick holes in reports, we need them to become sounding boards…
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RTB advice from the CIH
This is a useful summary of the recent activity and decisions to be made from the CIH. What you need to know about the…
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Govt think tank comments on privatisation of HAs
Privatising housing associations would be “the most obvious” government reaction to £60bn of debt being added to the national balance sheet, an influential thinktank…
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Funding of new homes goes international
A Chinese private enterprise firm is to invest £60m in three Northern Powerhouse projects that could deliver 10,000 new homes, including housing developments in…
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Nationalisation of HAs
Statistics are in the news for the housing sector at the moment, not for their own sake, but because of their significance to the…
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NHF commissions work on Merger of HAs and merger code
The National Housing Federation has set up a steering group to begin work on developing a code to govern sector mergers. Accordng to Inside…
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New S 21 notices
From 1 October 2015 the Deregulation Act 2015, together with related regulations bring in a raft of changes for housing providers. These include tenancy…
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PAC – govt mismanaging disposals of public land
A group of MPs has accused the government of mismanaging the programme of disposing of public land for housebuilding, in a report. According to…
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Full Greg Clark speech at NHF conference on RTB
Here is the full speech from the NHf conference in Biringham last week which gives HAs up to Friday to sign up to RTB…
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Devolution requests from LAs and requests on rents and RTB
A coalition of councils representing England’s eight largest city economies outside London has called for greater devolution of housing policy and funding, but warned…
