All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1408
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Setting rents
Social landlords' rent levels don't make sense - and with a housing green paper on the way, it's time to rewrite the rules. But how is the government to come up with a national rent setting formula that will suit everyone? Nothing should be set in stone
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Helping to make a start
Economic regeneration is the flavour of the month for many social landlords. Can they stand the heat or should they stay out of the kitchen and concentrate on housing management?
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Corporation to review the grant rate model for a year
The Housing Corporation is to bow to pressure from housing associations on how housing development is funded, with a fundamental, year-long review of the grant rate model
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Compelling case for Best Value
Worst HAs as well as councils could be forced to compete
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Government faces fresh battle over support plans
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has confirmed that council housing departments will be put out to tender if they fail Best Value inspections
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Tenants miss out on £245m of benefits
A large-scale investigation has revealed that the government could be handing out up to £480m in housing benefit to tenants of supported housing who are not eligible for it
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HA sues care manager over missing £154,000
A housing manager stole £154,000 from tenants with special needs - using some of the cash to buy an executive car, it is being claimed
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Window of opportunity
Councils have £12m and a framework for getting tenants involved in housing management. So what do tenants want now?
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LA tenants face long wait for housing inspections
Tangible improvements to council housing services for many tenants could still be several years away, despite the impending implementation of Best Value, it emerged this week
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First of 'several' councils is surprised as an inspector calls
Inspectors swooped on a council housing department this week - but the exercise was more about testing their own methods than the council's services
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Associations challenged to be 'engines of regeneration'
A grand vision of a massively expanded housing association sector playing a leading role in the much-vaunted urban renaissance was set out this week
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'Amnesty' planned for blacklisted thousands
Excluded people could return to the system
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We don't need no ... allocations
Streets of homes lie empty yet some areas are paved with rough sleepers. The way social housing is allocated clearly doesn't make sense - but just who should be entitled to a home, and how much choice should they have?
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Council admits housing service is a bad example
A council admitted this week that it was an example to all local authorities of how not to run its housing services - after a squatter won the right to keep a £200,000 council home
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Slipping through the net?
Joined-up problems need joined-up solutions. Does one of the longest running government initiatives, the SRB, offer the best chance of success? Housing Today went to a city which has been funded under every round so far to find out
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It's a jungle out there...
Are housing professionals equipped to meet the challenge of tackling social exclusion? Or are they just too stressed? Housing Today asks what we need to do to produce the right housing managers for the next millennium
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Minister warns housing 'junkies' to look to future
The housing minister has attacked the insularity of 'housing junkies' and urged the sector to join in the wider debate about the future of society
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Poll shows public keeps faith in social housing
More than 90 per cent of the public think social housing should be available to them if they need it, but 40 per cent don't want councils to run it
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Team bids to end demolition of new properties
A Whitehall team looks set to call for a new framework for assessing housing demand to ensure that the demolition of new and unlet housing never happens again
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Action team forced to go public on major report
A disgruntled minority on one of the government's action teams for neighbourhood renewal has forced the team to agree to put its controversial report out for consultation