Recently the corporation expressed concern about an overall dip in performance last year without naming associations (Housing Today, 27 January).
The tables show that Bradford and Northern housing association had the highest proportion of voids at 7.3 per cent. But Northern Counties housing association had the highest proportion of vacant dwellings that were available for letting at 4.7 per cent.
Associations are supposed to have no more than 2 per cent of their homes vacant and available for letting. A total of thirteen large associations failed to meet this minimum standard. These were not confined associations operating in the north, where demand problems are worst - the list includes Paddington Churches, Raglan, William Sutton, Sanctuary and Bedfordshire Pilgrims.
English Churches Housing Group, which is currently under supervision, recorded the worst average relet times of more than 13 weeks.
Between them the 41 associations in the peer group own 42.7 per cent of all housing association stock.
The peer group average of 5.2 weeks for relet times was above the minimum standard of 4 weeks.
Riverside HA recorded the highest number of formal complaints at 1,261, in this group Tonbridge and Malling had the least with just 12.
Across nearly all associations, staff costs in 1999 increased by 4.7 per cent, at a time when Housing Today recorded that chief executive's pay increased by 7.4 per cent (Housing Today, 25 November).
Stephen Fox, Housing corporation regulation team senior advisor said: "Any PIs that are outside the benchmarks or identified as particularly high, or in some cases low, are picked up by the regulatory and compliance system and taken up by the regions."
More information on the corporation's PI service is available, Tel: 0207 393 2137
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Housing Today
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