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By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. Last week, I chaired a Residents’ Network session for HQN with a mix of engagement staff from local authorities and housing associations. One of the issues we discussed was whether there was a good portal…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. This week, the Intergenerational Foundation published a report on micro-homes (written mainly by me, with a foreword by Danny Dorling). See here. The report analyses the growing phenomenon of building tiny apartments of less than…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. The buying and selling of freeholds is one of the murkier corners of the property market. Along with spiralling ground rents and the complexities of leasehold enfranchisement, these are areas where urgent reforms are required…
By Colin Wiles, housing consultant. Happy New Year to you all – although it has to be said that the new decade has kicked off with anything but happiness: instead there is a sense of Apocalypse, with Australia on fire…
Landlords are calling on the Chancellor to adopt a “cost-of-living plan for the private rented sector” as tenants and landlords face ever growing costs.
Our new survey of over 4,000 UK households, conducted by YouGov, reveals that one-quarter (24%) of parents have already cut back on the quantity of food to afford essentials such as their energy bills since the beginning of the year, while 28% say they have cut back on the quality.
Up to £1.5bn is being made available through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Home Upgrade Grant schemes, allowing social housing providers and local authorities to submit bids for funding to upgrade the properties of around 130,000 low-income and social households.
The Housing Ombudsman’s latest Insight report covering April to June 2022 shows complaint volumes remain high, with the service receiving 6,009 enquiries and complaints over the three months.
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has said “soaring construction costs, net zero targets and proposed government rent controls” all threaten social landlords’ ability to play their part in tackling the cost-of-living crisis.
The Regulator of Social Housing has found the London Borough of Redbridge to have breached the Home Standard, just a month after a similar finding against London Borough of Greenwich.
At the Labour Party conference, Shadow Housing Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said that the party will “mend the deliberate vandalism of our social housing stock”.
Board members of two Yorkshire based housing associations, York Housing Association (YHA) and Leeds & Yorkshire Housing Association (LYHA), have confirmed they will join together through a transfer of engagements.
