The NHF is currently redrafting its code, which is expected to recommend fixed terms for board members, annual appraisals and guidelines on the role of paid executives on boards.
Langlands said: "The National Housing Federation has produced guidance on good governance for its own organisations. This is a good example of what might be possible on a wider scale."
News of both reviews comes after a stormy month for governance in the sector, with the country's largest association, Places for People, being placed under Housing Corporation supervision.
Langlands, a renowned academic who is vice-chancellor of Dundee University and former chief executive of the NHS, has been asked to lead the review but is waiting for formal confirmation of the position by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The JRF's trustees will meet to discuss funding the project later this month.
Langlands hoped the review would look at how to ensure the codes are followed. He said: "If there is a code, how do we get people to enter into the spirit of it? That's an area that would be good to get into, in terms if public services."
He added that he wanted to make sure that the review came up with recommendations that work. "The idea that people lock themselves away and come up with ideas would not be my way of doing things," he said. "If I were involved in this process I would want it pretty transparent, dealing with existing good practice because somewhere out there, best practice exists already."
The JRF review was proposed by think tank the Office of Public Management and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, which represents public sector finance staff.
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Housing Today
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