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Friday 10 July 2020
Evictions back from 23rd August – Private Renter Arrears
A YouGov Poll, on behalf of a homelessness charity found 227,000 adult private renters (3%) have fallen into arrears since the coronavirus lockdown began. This puts…
Tagged: Arrears
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Wednesday 8 July 2020
New Complaints Code for residents and staff in housing
The Housing Ombudsman produced a new code for improved complaints handling on 7th July. Here are some points of suggested action from his speech…
Tagged: Complaints
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Monday 29 June 2020
Could social housing come from struggling Private Rent providers?
The Public sector should buy up homes from “overstretched” private landlords, the Affordable Housing Commission (AHC) has said. Lord Richard Best, chair of the AHC,…
Tagged: House Building Housing Strategy
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Monday 29 June 2020
Concerns on Fire safety doors
Of more than 100,000 doors in around 2,700 buildings across the UK inspected by the Fire Door Inspection Scheme (FDIS) in 2019, 76% were…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Monday 29 June 2020
UN concerned cladding in-action may breach their regulations
The United Nations has warned the UK government that its failure to replace dangerous cladding on buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Monday 29 June 2020
Housing Development focus – post Covid
The Prime Minister said today that support for housing developments will form part of the government’s economic coronavirus recovery plan. The PM has informed…
Tagged: Coronavirus Economy House Building
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Monday 29 June 2020
NHF Code of Governance Review
The National Housing Federation announced it is postponing the 3rd wave of its consultation on governance until later in 2020. The NHF remain committed…
Tagged: Goverance Regulation
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Sunday 14 June 2020
3 years on from the terrible tragedy of Grenfell Tower
Today is the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 72 people lost their lives. This is a helpful timeline from Inside Housing:…
Tagged: Care and Support Health and Safety
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Friday 12 June 2020
Black Lives Matter
This is a helpful contribution from Tracey Gore, CEO at Steve Biko HA, where i am proud to me a member of the Board.…
Tagged: Equality
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Tuesday 26 May 2020
New Homes Quality Board assembled
Ms Elphicke, (MP for Dover and Deal), will Chair the interim board developing the new arbitration service for complaints about building work in new…
