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WEB6 days ago · The housing crisis among the sector’s staff. An exclusive survey by Inside Housing has revealed that many social housing staff are battling housing insecurity and fearing homelessness themselves. Katharine Swindells digs into the findings. Most read.
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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Estates regenerated using cross-subsidy model saw average rent increase of £80 per week, report finds. News20.09.24.
Country’s largest housing association hit by cyber attack
WEBJun 24, 2022 · Rent and service charge payment systems have not been affected by the attack. This is the latest cyber attack on a social housing landlord. Most recently, Gloucester City Council was the victim of an attack by hackers thought to be based in Russia. Hackney Council and 32,00-home Flagship Homes have also been hit by attacks in recent years.. Inside Housing reported last year that Hackney ...
Reeves reportedly planning 10-year rent settlement for Budget
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to introduce a 10-year rent settlement for social landlords in the next Budget on 30 October #UKhousing. According to the Financial Times, Ms Reeves intends to increase annual rents in England by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation – which currently stands at 2.2% – plus an extra 1%.
Levelling Up White Paper: all the housing policies at a glance
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · By 2030, every part of England that wishes to have a ‘London-style’ devolution deal will have one, ministers have pledged. This could have a huge ramification for housing, given the level of autonomy that London mayor Sadiq Khan currently has over housing spend and policy in the capital. The white paper sets out a ‘devolution framework ...
Inside Housing - News - Labour pledges to go ‘net positive’ on …
WEBSep 12, 2023 · To do so, Mr Pennycook said that he would “repurpose the Affordable Homes Programme to direct it overwhelmingly toward the provision of social rented homes”. “Enhanced compulsory powers” would make it “easier and cheaper” to deliver affordable housing, he said. Meanwhile, the “dramatically increased discounts” on the Right to Buy introduced in 2012 “cannot possibly be ...
Inside Housing - Home - Why the Guinness Partnership is still …
WEBMar 13, 2020 · Whether our new affordable homes will last more than 130 years, we can’t know. But build quality and good, modern design, producing excellent, liveable spaces and environments for people for the long term, are still at the forefront of our thinking. Guinness has always taken that people-centred approach, focused on social purpose and ...
The Social Housing White Paper: The proposals at a glance
WEBNov 17, 2020 · The white paper puts forward a lot of proposals that will change how social landlords operate – from new tenant satisfaction measures, to improved complaints processes, to the removal of the ‘serious detriment’ tests. Here, the Inside Housing news team runs through the white paper and picks out …
Inside Housing - Insight - How race impacts on people’s chances …
WEBMay 24, 2021 · English Housing Survey data published in October 2020 shows that disproportionate numbers of people from specific ethnic minority groups live in damp housing, compared with their white British counterparts.Mixed white and Black Caribbean (13%), Bangladeshi (10%), Black African (9%) and Pakistani (8%) households were all much more likely to have damp problems than white British households (3%).
Small London landlord appoints new chief executive
WEBMay 6, 2021 · Sharelines. .@GatewayHousing has appointed Kate Franklin as its new chief executive #UKhousing. Ms Franklin will take up the role in August following the departure of Kate Dodsworth, who has been selected as the first director of consumer regulation at the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). Ms Franklin joins the 2,900-home landlord from Essex ...