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Wednesday 2 May 2018
Rent guidance due to change
New rent guidance will be issued this year by the regulator, according to the RSH at the Acuity conference. Current guidance focuses on rent…
Tagged: Rents
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Wednesday 2 May 2018
Consumer regulation and involvement
Here is the list of obligations of the regulator of Social Housing in their most recent ” regulating the standards” publication”, April 2018. The…
Tagged: Goverance Tenant Involvement
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Saturday 21 April 2018
The Green Paper on Housing from the Labour party
The Green paper on Housing announced this week in the Guardian, supporting more homes, including social housing and a challenge to housing affordability. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/19/britain-housing-market-broken-labour-council-houses…
Tagged: Government Initiatives
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Thursday 12 April 2018
Gender Pay Gap
Major housing associations are revealed to have gender pay gaps of more than 25%, as the government deadline for reporting the figures passed. you…
Tagged: Equality
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Fire doors – not as resistant as they should be at Grenfell
The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) said it had lobbied government for years about toughening up the checks on fire doors. Following an announcement earlier…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Government admits failure in RTB one for one replacement
The government said 15,981 homes had been acquired or started as replacements for those sold under the Right to Buy since 2012. This contrasts…
Tagged: Right to Buy
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Increase in those homeless in temporary accommodation
There were 78,930 households living in temporary accommodation between October and December 2017. Out of these households 60,520 had children. There were 16% of…
Tagged: Homelessness
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Failures in the lead up to the Grenfell Fire
As the minister announces to parliament about the delays in re-homing survivors of Grenfell, a paper trail of the failures in the system of building…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Thursday 29 March 2018
New Homelessness minister calls for sprinklers in high rise
Heather Wheeler, ministerial homelessness lead has urged the government during a debate to make the fitting of sprinklers mandatory in all new developments. Building regulations…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Saturday 3 March 2018
Local Public Account Committees
As a proud supporting advisory group member, here is some information on the latest project from CfPS, who welcome your responses. CfPS’s view is…
