As the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 receives royal assent, NFA Managing Director Eamon McGoldrick explains his enthusiasm for this new era of regulation in the social housing sector.
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May 2023
The NFA, with ARCH, has submitted written evidence to the LUHC Select Committee’s inquiry into the finances and sustainability of social housing. The submission covers the impact of inflation, rising prices, new regulatory legislation and successive years of enforced rent cuts on the council housing sector.
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Helen Baker, Chair of Shelter and of the Better Social Housing Review Panel, was a keynote speaker at the 2023 NFA Annual Conference. She told delegates that the review panel are keenly aware that social housing is a system under pressure. The issues landlords face are very real – and better quality and truly comparable data will be a crucial first step in making it possible for them to deliver on their core purpose.
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NFA member Stockport Homes has been praised as ‘truly an example of an excellent social service’ during a Westminster Hall debate on the future of social housing. Stockport MP Navendu Mishra told parliamentary colleagues taking part in the debate on 19 April 2023 that SHG was ‘so much more than a social housing provider’.
A new report (April 2023) based on conversations with tenants who scrutinise and assess their landlord’s services will be published at this year’s NFA annual conference. ‘Critical Friends: What tenant scrutiny brings to better landlord performance’ summarises best practice in council-owned ALMO housing management, where tenant involvement is a core requirement. #NFAConf23
Tenant Scrutiny: A superpower for social landlords? Read More »
Our conference series of blogs begins today with the story of how Barnet Homes has achieved a modest but steady increase in its council-owned and managed social housing stock in recent years without the borrowing power of housing associations, and in spite of the spiralling pressures on the borough’s housing revenue account. Derek Rust, the Barnet ALMO’s Group Director of Growth and Development, explains to the 2023 NFA Annual Review how it’s been done. #NFAConf23
19 April 2023: Barnet Homes has achieved a modest but steady increase in its council-owned and managed social housing stock in recent years without the borrowing power of housing associations or encouragement from central government policy makers, and in spite of the spiralling pressures on the borough’s housing revenue account. In the first of our 2023 conference blogs, the Barnet ALMO’s Director of Growth and Development explains how it’s been done. #NFAConf23
The Hermitage Lane model: A new age of social housing Read More »
Housing is a basic right, yet circumstances and policy are transforming social housing managers and staff into social paramedics.
The Building Safety Act received royal assent in April 2022. Its provisions began to come into force in May and all provisions will be live by mid-2024. At Your Homes Newcastle, we have always striven to keep our residents and the structure they live in safe. And since the Grenfell Tower Fire in 2017, of course, safe buildings have explicitly and consciously been a key priority for every member of our staff.
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The NFA has joined leading UK charities and not-for-profit organisations calling for urgent government action to tackle the cost of living crisis.
NFA joins national charities’ call for urgent action on cost of living crisis Read More »