by Admin Deb | Oct 6, 2011 | Moving House, Mutual Exchanges, Social Housing general
I have so many members (and non-members) telling me how they have problems with repairs after exchanging properties. Some seem to be general repairs like a broken window handle and other repairs are more serious like holes in walls and broken electrics. So you are...
by Admin Deb | Oct 6, 2011 | H.A. & R.S.L. general, Social Housing general
Changes to housing benefit The Government is planning to make significant changes to welfare payments including housing benefit. Many of the details have not been finalised but, based on what ministers have said they want to do, this is what we would expect to happen...
by Admin Deb | Sep 20, 2011 | Featured, H.A. & R.S.L. general, Social Housing general
Until this is official (having been to the Government regulator etc) and I have more documentation on the subject, I cannot be 100% sure that any answers I give here will be correct. The Quality of Accommodation Standard has to be revised to reflect the fact that the...
by Admin Deb | Jun 7, 2011 | Social Housing general
The Welfare Reform Bill – currently going through Parliament – will try to match families to the right sized property, which could be via a housing association on a housing estate. According to Lord Freud, this means that having a spare bedroom is going to...
by Admin Deb | Dec 18, 2010 | Social Housing general
When the RTB policy came in, the council tenants, targeted to buy their properties, are now beginning to die. As a result, the arrangements (or lack of them) that they made when they bought their properties are becoming all too apparent. Far from there being an...
by Admin Deb | Nov 23, 2010 | Social Housing general
This overhaul will be the biggest shake up of council housing for a generation. Plans to introduce short term tenancy agreements of between two and ten years have been revealed. Five million people are currently on waiting lists for housing and 250,000 council houses...
