All Archive Titles articles – Page 795
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Archive TitlesThink Tank
Can we help our tenants film their nuisance neighbours?We have purchased a portable, covert CCTV camera and are thinking of lending it to residents to film nuisance and antisocial behaviour. What are the legal implications?If you're a council, you should consider getting authorisation under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers ...
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Archive TitlesTalking the talk
A conference hall packed with strangers can be a scary place if you don't know how to network. Kate Freeman asks the experts how to deal with speed networking, drinks receptions and dinners.
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Who do we represent?
I used to be a voluntary resident member of a neighbourhood management board. Recently the board decided to change a traffic flow and effectively create a one-way system. I voted against the plan, with several others on the board. I was then approached by several residents and a business who ...
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The unspoken problem
I’d like to compliment Croydon Churches Housing Association for the exposure of a problem that is now an epidemic in housing management, although many of us remain silent (“The £50k eviction”, 4 June, page 16).It’s easy for the Home Office to say social landlords must act, not make excuses, on ...
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Public & private
The Treasury has said no to tax cuts; Mike McGowan explains the implications
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Archive TitlesWhat is a ... Tenant support officer?
Kevin D'Cruze tells Ellen Bennett why he loves being a helping hand for vulnerable people
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Multiculturalism and money
Multiculturalism has always been implicitly about public funding for separatist provision. But it has become clear that, even if some specific projects merit funding, the overall impact is to create more long-term division and social conflict.Social housing has an unhealthy obsession with ethnicity and arguments for cultural sensitivity. But such ...
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Archive TitlesNo room at the inn
Once the speeches on affordable housing have been digested, some delegates at next week's CIH conference will be sleeping in B&Bs that usually house homeless people. Joey Gardiner reports on Harrogate council's struggle to find extra beds in a town that's all booked up.
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Tower Hamlets tenants say yes to transfer
Council tenants in Tower Hamlets voted on Tuesday to transfer their homes to new social landlord Eastend Homes.
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The freedom to sponsor
I commend Mitchell Howard’s hope for Gillingham FC and the possibility of wider development of their current ground – it is good if more social housing can be provided (28 May, page 23).I do wonder, though, if MHS’ ability to provide sponsorship to the Gills has anything to do with ...
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Archive TitlesFlat woof
FLAT WOOF: An RSPCA officer and his furry friend help to launch the charity’s guidance for housing providers on pet policies. It gives advice on issues including encouraging responsible ownership and minimising the nuisance caused by problem owners. Free copies are available at www.rspca.org.uk.
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Re-use of derelict houses hit by funding knock-back
A charity that brings empty homes back into use may have to abandon expansion plans after failing to secure Housing Corporation funding.
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Public inquiry may delay Newcastle regeneration by up to two years
A landowner is demanding a public inquiry that could delay the regeneration of Newcastle's West End by two years.
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When disability isn't a defence from eviction
Antisocial disabled tenants can use anti-discrimination law to avoid being kicked out, but it won't work unless the behaviour is a proven symptom of their condition
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Do the decent thing
The question that's been asked loudest in the past six months by the councils that have yet to figure out how they are going to afford to get their stock up to the decent homes standard is this: "If tenants reject transfer, arm's-length management and the private finance initiative, and ...
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Now you have it, now you don't: the saga of the decency deadline
Consultation suggests giving more time to councils with no options left, but is withdrawn
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Liverpool council trains prisoners to repair homes
Pilot scheme trains inmates who are then given jobs and the offer of a home on their release
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Archive TitlesCorporation to crack down on executive pay
Tackling soaring salaries and severance packages among senior executives will be a priority for the Housing Corporation’s new chief executive.