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A unitary council on the south coast of England has referred itself to the Regulator of Social Housing over shortcomings in its electrical and fire safety work to tenants’ homes, leading to a probable breach of the Home Standard. Bournemouth,... View Article

The PlaceShapers group of housing associations is calling on the Government to make funds available for its members’ work on regenerating housing estates and decarbonisation work on existing stock. Backed up by published research in a new report ‘Stay local,... View Article

Among the many questions left unanswered by Michael Gove’s commitment to make developers pay for resolving the cladding crisis on Britain’s block of flats, perhaps the most important one is how all of the other necessary safety works are to... View Article

Michael Gove broke the stalemate over who has responsibility for cladding removal costs by demanding that developers pay up, but his solution may only provide a partial relief for individual leaseholders. Developers have been given until early March to agree... View Article

Poor social housing conditions have been a problem for 30 or 40 years and the Government, together with social landlords, face an uphill battle to solve the issue according to the Archbishop of Canterbury. During an interview with ITV News,... View Article

The lack of both skills and quality data is holding back social housing landlords who are attempting to digitally transform their organisations and better serve residents. A new survey, commissioned by conversation-as-a-service leader Futr, has found that social landlords see... View Article

Sixty per cent of all homeless adults living in temporary accommodation in England are women, despite only making up 51 per cent of the general population analysis by the housing charity Shelter has found. The charity’s new report, Fobbed Off, used... View Article

A series of complaint handling failures by the London Borough of Ealing led to a lengthy and frustrating delay for a resident in getting a leaking roof replaced, causing damp in her flat and impacting on her health. The leaseholder complained in... View Article

Research by a leading lettings and estate agency has found an estimated £200bn worth of property is sitting vacant across Britain’s housing market – up 2.1 per cent on the previous year alone. Barrows and Forrester analysed Government data on... View Article

Representative bodies from across the housing sector have warmly welcomed the Government’s plans to sort out the cladding crisis, but they have universally asked for more details and highlighted concerns about the funding of other essential fire safety works and... View Article