Is the Housing Benefit bill out of control? In 1979 we spent £2.5bn on HB (2019 prices), today we spend £21bn. Yet new research published today finds that, relative total 'housing costs', the value of all rental subsidies are much lower today than in the past.🧵⬇️

We have made six findings of severe maladministration in three different cases concerning GreenSquareAccord, with issues such as: ❌pest infestation ❌noise nuisance ❌ongoing repairs Explore the cases: ow.ly/pvNb50PIlk6 #ukhousing

The Regulator of Social Housing has written to all Registered Providers urging them to check that their buildings do not contain #RAAC gov.uk/government/pub…

The @luhc has published new guidance on tackling #dampandmould gov.uk/government/pub…

.Honeycomb Group has become the first housing association to join the @luhc / Boardroom Apprentice boardroom apprenticeship scheme to improve #diversity honeycombgroup.org.uk/news/2023/hone…

The Regulator of Social Housing has downgraded Octavia Housing Octavia to non-compliant G3 V3, due to concerns about financial resources, systems, data and planning gov.uk/government/pub…

The Regulator of Social Housing has placed A2Dominion Group on the gradings under review list. gov.uk/government/new…

The boards of Abri and @wearesilvahomes have agreed the final business case for their #merger, which is expected to take place in early October. abri.co.uk/media-hub/abri…

The boards of @networkhomesuk and @sovereignha have agreed to merge to form Sovereign Network Group. Subject to due diligence, the merger will take effect on 1st October. sovereign.org.uk/press-release/…

In the quarter to June, the number of unsold Affordable Home Ownership units rose 4% to 7,670 while the number of unsold Market Sale units rose by 19% to 1,334. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

The ⁦NEF⁩ has proposed a community right to buy, which would enable housing associations to buy poor quality or empty homes from private landlords, bring them up to standard and use them for #affordablehousing neweconomics.org/2023/09/the-co…

Development in certain areas will continue to be affected by nutrient neutrality rules after a government amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill was defeated in the House of Lords hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-09-…

A partnership between Gentoo Group and Northumbrian Water saved residents on low incomes more than £1.3m on their water bills in the last year. gentoogroup.com/news/2024/janu……

A consultation on Street Vote Development Orders, which will enable residents to propose development on their street and vote on whether the development should be given planning permission, runs until 2nd February. consult.levellingup.gov.uk/planning-polic…

The shameful #HousingCrisis is the result of decades of underinvestment by successive governments. Short term decisions on housing have made this crisis worse at all levels. We are calling on all parties to commit to a long-term #PlanForHousing 👉 housing.org.uk/our-work/a-lon…

A letter from National Housing Federation Homeless Link and LGANews to Felicity Buchan warns that multiple supported housing services are under threat of closure at a time due to LA funding pressures at a time when homelessness is rising sharply housing.org.uk/globalassets/f…

The @luhc has issued a direction to the Regulator of Social Housing to set a standard requiring RPs to provide information to their tenants about their rights and relevant regulatory requirements, and how to make a complaint about their landlord. gov.uk/government/con…

.TfL has opened a consultation on extending the Docklands Light Railway to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead, supporting the construction of between 25,000 and 30,000 new homes. The consultation closes on 18th March. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/dlr-extension

Between 2021 and 2026, the government will spend six times as much on subsidising private landlords as it will invest in new affordable homes. This is according to an analysis by NEF. neweconomics.org/2024/01/govern…

A @luhc consultation on the Competence and Conduct Standard will run until 2nd April. It proposes a two-year deadline from the date that the Standard comes into force for RPs to comply with the requirements on qualifications. gov.uk/government/con…