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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Homlessness Bill
A duty on councils to temporarily house homeless people who are not in priority need has been stripped out from a new bill that…
Tagged: Homelessness
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
St Vincents downgraded for Fire Safety
The HCA has downgraded St Vincent’s Housing Association’s (SVHA) following failures to do with its fire risk assessments. St Vincent’s Housing Association’s (SVHA) governance…
Tagged: Goverance Health and Safety Regulation
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Government suggests new housing regulator
A government review into the Housing reglator has suggested a retrn to a split between regulatory functions and invetment functions, just a few years…
Tagged: Goverance Regulation
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Benefit Cap – in effect from 7th November 2016
The lower benefit cap has come into effect. The limit on total household benefits across the United Kingdom will be £20,000 per year (£23,000…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty Welfare Reform
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Asra and Paragon plan to merge
A merger to create a 24,000-home housing association will be submitted to the Homes and Communities Agency in February following support from some tenants.…
Tagged: Goverance
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Natonal Fraud initiative – drop in recovery of homes
54 social housing properties were recovered this year in efforts to stamp out tenancy fraud, according to a report from the Cabinet Office’s National…
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Tuesday 8 November 2016
Chaplter 1 and Salvation Army HAs to merge
Chapter 1 was previously warned by the regulator that it may no longer have a future as an independent business and the only housing association in…
Tagged: Goverance Regulation
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Monday 10 October 2016
1.6% of tenancies apply for Voluntary RTB
Just 1.6% of households in the Right to Buy pilot schemes have made an application to buy their social home. The National Housing Federation…
Tagged: Right to Buy
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Monday 10 October 2016
the benefit cap changes
As part of the 2015 summer budget the government announced the benefit cap, introduced in 2013, would be lowered. This briefing summarises the most…
Tagged: Welfare Reform
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Monday 10 October 2016
Brexit and citizenship
The British citizenship system has lain unreformed for decades, and the Brexit vote has cast the status and security of the 3 million EU…
