In November 2020, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) confirmed plans to introduce new rules to ensure social rented homes are fitted with smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. The proposed changes, subject to parliamentary approval, will mean all social landlords must: Install at least one smoke alarm on every storey of their […]
The APPG for Housing in the North, the forum for Parliamentarians to discuss and advance housing and related policy issues, met this month to launch a new work programme for 2022/3. 2021 had proved to be a productive year for the group with a string of Ministerial engagements. The APPG was joined in both January […]
Good Green Jobs – Tenants, Housing, and Skills, the latest collaboration between the NHC and Communities that Work, takes place next week to advance the conversation on how housing providers and other key sectors can work together to scale up the green economy in local areas. To achieve Net Zero by 2050, many parts of […]
Visitors to March’s Inside Housing Retrofit Challenge Summit didn’t have to wait very long to see the impact of the Social Housing Tenant’s Climate Jury. Indeed, Inside Housing Editor Martin Hilditch used his welcome programme notes to describe the Jury as “absolutely recommended reading” and pledged the publications support to “pick up on some of […]
Homelessness and housing officers from across the country tuned in to Locata’s National Users Group (NUG) meeting last month. More than 350 officers registered for the webinar to hear Andy Gale, one of the country’s top housing experts, set out the challenges facing homelessness teams in 2022. He highlighted and discussed four key issues: The […]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered the Treasury’s Spring Statement to the House of Commons today to provide an update on the overall health of the economy and scale of the impact of the rising cost-of-living. Leading up to today, Sunak has faced huge pressure to alleviate escalating costs and provide additional support to low-income households. With […]
In their 2019 manifesto, the Government committed to delivering a £3.8bn Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) over a ten-year period to upgrade the energy performance of social rented homes below EPC C. The aims of the Fund are to “deliver warm, energy-efficient homes, reduce carbon emissions and fuel bills, tackle fuel poverty, and support green […]
The February 2022 Levelling Up White Paper has made a start on rebalancing geographic inequalities, however there is much more to be done. Whether it’s ‘Levelling Up’, regeneration, or rebalancing. Whatever we or the Government call it, registered housing providers have a central role to play in working collaboratively across areas and sectors to develop sustainable local […]
It’s five years since the 2017 Housing White Paper, Fixing our Broken Housing Market, which set out a package of reforms firmly focused on increasing the supply of new homes. Five years on, the Levelling Up White Paper, with its declaration that ‘Nowhere is the need for making opportunity more equal more urgent than in […]
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee is continuing its inquiry examining the quality and regulation of social housing in England. Written evidence has been published, including the written evidence submitted by the NHC. The LUHC’s inquiry is examining concerns about the quality of social housing, with a focus on the ability of the Regulator […]