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Wednesday 29 August 2012
Shorter CIH level 3 qualifications for staff and tenants
The CIH Level 3 in Housing at Blackburne House in Liverpool is now a shorter 15 week (day release) Level 3 Certificate, which we will…
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Wednesday 29 August 2012
Sell off expensive social housing?
The Policy Exchange think tank says that LAs and HAs should sell off expensive social housing as it becomes vacant, suggesting that these could fund…
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Tuesday 28 August 2012
Homeswap
The government have annouced that almost 6,000 people a day are searching for social homes to swap on a government website. The Communities and…
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Tuesday 28 August 2012
Multi agency homelessness approach
A report sets out a cross-Government approach to ensuring that anyone at risk of homelessness gets help at the earliest possible stage to prevent…
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Tuesday 28 August 2012
Competition to build your own neighbourhood
Star of the British design industry Sir Terence Conran is to work with the Government to help create a new competition to give communities…
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Tuesday 28 August 2012
Tenant Empowerment Funding available
Grant Shapps has opened a £1.32m tranche of DCLG funding from the £8m Tenant Empowerment Programme (first announced in February 2011) to charities and benevolent…
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Tuesday 28 August 2012
Provate rented sector report
Sir Adrian Montague’s proposals to encourage greater investment in build-to-let have been published by the government. The report examined how best to encourage greater investment in rental…
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Saturday 18 August 2012
Councils are not backing the priority for armed forces housing applicants
Councils across the political spectrum are rejecting the government’s new allocations policy, a Conservative website has found. A freedom of information request to the…
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Saturday 18 August 2012
Houisng re-possessions are up
Social landlords Possession claims by social landlords leapt up by 8 per cent in the first quarter of the year, according to a legal…
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Saturday 18 August 2012
Launch of first REIT
The first company to launch a social housing real estate investment trust has begun to accept bids from landlords for up to £700 million…
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