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Sunday 12 August 2018
Building communities and supporting tenants into work
IPPR have released research today on the £70M a year spent supporting out-of-work tenants to rejoin the jobs market. It is more than half…
Tagged: Work
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Sunday 12 August 2018
Future funding of supported housing
The government has shared its plans for the future funding of supported housing. Supported housing, including refuges and all forms of short-term supported housing,…
Tagged: Care and Support Housing Strategy
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Saturday 4 August 2018
Well done L&Q and Salix for adopting the recommendations early from the Hackitt report
L&Q and Salix Homes, as well as builders Willmott Dixon and Kier, will work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Saturday 4 August 2018
Regulatory downgrades for 3 landlords
The Regulator of Social Housing downgraded three housing associations , including managing risk and electrical safety. Equity Housing Group, 4,600 homes based in Greater…
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Saturday 4 August 2018
Catch up on news from Grenfell Tower
The Guardian has reported survivors group Grenfell United is angry about a decision to hand control of the site of Grenfell Tower back to the council after…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Monday 9 July 2018
HAs chosen to partner with Homes England for affordable homes deal “wave one”.
Homes England will provide just under £590m from the affordable homes programme to the associations through to March 2022, in what it called the…
Tagged: House Building
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Monday 9 July 2018
New administration powers for the regulator to protect social housing tenants
A new special administration regime which allows the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) to deal with insolvent housing associations came me into force on…
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Monday 9 July 2018
New Housing Minister – AGAIN
Kit Malthouse has been appointed as the new housing minister after Dominic Raab left the post to take up the role of Brexit secretary.…
Tagged: Government Initiatives
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Tuesday 3 July 2018
Regulator to have more teeth and tenants to be empowered in the Housing Green paper
The regulator will be given more power in the government’s upcoming social housing green paper, according to housing minister Dominic Raab when he spoke…
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Tuesday 3 July 2018
Homes lost under RTB not replaced as promised
Councils have only been able to replace 4,944 of the 11,465 homes sold under right to buy in 2017/18 – only 43% of the homes…
Tagged: Government Initiatives Right to Buy
