The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published analysis exploring the similarities and differences between local authorities in England – grouping together local authorities with similar characteristics to create ‘clusters’. The ONS says that the findings from their analysis “allows users to understand the similarities between local authorities, while providing local authorities with control groups […]
Councils can now estimate the size and cost of their future Temporary Accommodation (TA) need using a predictive model developed by Andy Gale, one of the country’s leading homelessness experts. It is designed to help housing managers make the case for additional budget or capital resources to help purchase lower-cost TA. This is particularly important […]
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced the successful bids from Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) for successful local authorities and providers of social housing to install energy efficiency upgrades in their housing stock. £778 million has been offered to 107 projects for Wave 2.1 of the […]
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today (15 March 2023) set out his first Spring Budget outlining the Government’s plans on taxes and key decisions on spending. Following the Chancellor’s announcements, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has published its economic and fiscal outlook. The OBR are expecting inflation to fall sharply to 2.9% by the end […]
The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), which represents housing organisations in the North, is calling on the Chancellor to use next week’s Budget to uprate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to provide a lifeline for struggling renters in the North. The NHC and others welcomed the decision from government last November to protect the most vulnerable in […]
The Review of the Decent Homes Standard has been underway since early 2021 – and the Northern Housing Consortium are part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Review Sounding Board. With a consultation on extending the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector having concluded last year, the NHC are expecting […]
International real estate company JLL gave a session on market trends in housing on the 22nd February 2022. The session was hosted by NHC with involvement from members in the roundtable. From JLL, we had Marcus Dixon and Paul Winstanley, who gave insights into the economic insight into the housing market, the PRS and the […]
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has launched a new consultation on issuing new directions to the Regulator of Social Housing relating to tenant involvement and mutual exchange. This is part of the Social Housing White Paper’s commitment to introduce a proactive consumer regulation regime. DLUHC has reviewed existing directions covering tenant involvement and mutual exchange to ensure they are […]
The Government has this week launched its new ‘Make Things Right’ campaign to inform social housing residents that if they have a problem, it’s now easier to make things right. The campaign aims to help more social housing residents in England know how to complain if they’re unhappy with a service provided by their landlord. […]
Would you want retrofit work done on your home? How do you like your landlord to communicate with you? What language should we use to talk about energy efficiency? Those are just some of the questions which were discussed at a focus group with the tenant advisory group for the cross sector retrofit communications project. […]