New report reveals the need for urgent reform across private rented home sector. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are facing calls to accelerate reforms to protect tenants following a new report that reveals residents of private rented homes across the North of England face low standards, rising rents and a chronic lack of stability. The […]
The issue of Rent Setting has been a complex issue over a number of years, and is an area of interest to the Regulator. NHC has teamed up with Abovo-consult to assist members to check current rents and ensure rent setting is done in line with the Rent Standard, using the Abovo Rent Model. Abovo-Consult […]
The Northern Housing Consortium is asking for member views as part of their response to the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities Committee’s inquiry into Reforming the Private Rented Sector. Launched last week, the inquiry will scrutinise the Government’s recent White Paper, A Fairer Private Rented Sector. The Paper outlines plans to, among […]
We may be a small team but we make a difference. We’ve launched our ambitious, new corporate plan – it sets out how we’ll support you over the next three years to help you create better homes and places. This new plan focusses on your unrivalled member experience, it outlines our influencing priorities for […]
The Brownfield Land Release Fund will pledge up to £180 million capital grant funding to support The Government’s Levelling Up ambitions, it has been announced. The Fund will enable Councils to achieve these rebalancing ambitions and regenerating places by unlock land and developing renewed pride in place through newly empowered local leaders. The Government […]
In partnership with Karbon Homes and Bolton at Home, the NHC hosted the Levelling Up Conference on the 14th July in Leeds city centre. We brought together senior leaders for a full day conference to advance housing’s role in the core levelling up missions of improving public services, boosting living standards, restoring local pride, and […]
Increasing numbers of councils have been signing up for Locata’s TA – Plus (TAP) which gives officers far greater options managing Temporary Accommodation. TAP is a “bolt-on” to the HPA2 module (Locata’s homelessness system) and provides an expandable workflow platform for Tenancies and Properties that can be easily customised. This means that a local authority […]
The political landscape has been fast-moving to say the least over the past few weeks. Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister and will step down later this year. We also have a new Cabinet team to get the Government through the summer after a slew of resignations and subsequent new appointments. We now know […]
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) annual report on the Government’s progress towards the target of net zero by 2050 was published this month. A key area of concern highlighted was the lack of progress made on reducing emissions from homes where the CCC flagged current plans as insufficient. The report explained that record-high energy prices […]
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee has published its report on the Regulation of Social Housing. The Committee’s inquiry investigated a series of issues relating to the supply, quality and regulation of social housing. The NHC contributed to the inquiry’s oral evidence sessions which also heard from housing associations and councils, tenants and […]