All Archive Titles articles – Page 979
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Archive TitlesShortage of development staff puts regeneration projects in jeopardy
Housing associations and local authorities are facing a recruitment crisis that could hamper regeneration and development projects.
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Archive Titles'I will judge myself on delivery', says Housing Corporation's new Northern star
Max Steinberg, the Housing Corporation's charismatic director of investment and regeneration in the North, is a tough act to follow. But his successor John Carleton, a former England rugby star, is used to tough jobs.
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Consultation fatigue? Stop surveying and start listening
It is now received wisdom that, as service organisations, we ought to be aware of what our customers need and do our best to deliver on those requirements.
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Six landlords offer tenants cheap home contents insurance
Six social landlords are joining a scheme to provide cut-price insurance for tenants.
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Cheap at twice the price
David Morgan asks whether councillor board members are to be paid twice (Letters, 18 July, page 20). Why not?I am privileged to chair a local authority scrutiny committee and also chair the operations committee of a medium-sized registered social landlord. It would be easy for me to spend eight days ...
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Charity gets sweeter
Home Office plans to change charity law will have a direct bearing on RSLs. First among these proposals is making the provision of social housing a charitable object
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Clarity on charity
The government wants the social and private sectors to operate on a level playing field. But it has to be honest about where the not-for-profit sector is starting from
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South-east boards call for separate funding pots
Three boards say shared funding forces them to compete when they should be cooperating
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Archive TitlesBlair and Prescott kick-start South-east building boom
Government outlines where and how Communities Plan money will be spent
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Birmingham pathfinder plans carve-up
The Birmingham Sandwell pathfinder is to follow in the footsteps of the Merseyside body by carving up market renewal work between local housing associations.
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Bidding for social housing grant … MADE SIMPLE
If you're new to it (housebuilders take note), bidding can be tricky. Vincent Wilmot can help
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Home Group gets sector's best credit rating
Agency Standard & Poor's says A+ association is a better investment bet than M&S
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Councils forced to ask for transfer a second time
Struggling authorities will have to re-ballot tenants in bid to meet 2010 decency standard
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NASS to stop putting asylum seekers in market renewal areas
The National Asylum Support Service has agreed to direct asylum seekers away from areas of low housing demand from next year.
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NHF wants half of sector rebranded by April
The National Housing Federation aims to have 900,000 homes signed up to its rebranding programme by April.
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LGA slams 'knee-jerk' plan to dock antisocial tenants' benefits
Government plans to dock housing benefit from antisocial tenants have been condemned as "the worst form of knee-jerk reaction" by the Local Government Association.
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Milton Keynes furious at government's 'incomprehensible' denial of ALMO status
Milton Keynes council has branded the government's refusal of its bid for an arm's-length management organisation "absolutely incomprehensible".
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Archive TitlesTop staff changes at Peabody, Salford's ALMO and New Heartlands
An interim chief executive has been appointed at beleaguered New Prospect Housing – one of a number of top-level job moves in the sector this week.
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What does it all mean?
I am a social housing tenant in Birmingham. Along with the chairs of all housing associations and many others, I have been asked to respond to a Housing Corporation consultation paper entitled Involvement Policy. I wonder if others can help me to understand a statement in the paper. It says: ...