Fire safety is everyone's business. While there has been a focus on the physical attributes of fire safety recently, there is much housing management teams can do to help keep customers and tenants safe. Zhan McIntyre provides a short update on developments relating to fire safety that may be of interest to Housing Management professionals.
30-second round up of Mid-Market Rent activity.
Housing Management Update - May 2019
Letting Agent Registration update from April 2019
SFHA is planning to commission guidance on Mid-Market Rent. Read the summary of proposed content and get in touch if there is anything missing or redundant.
At the MMR Forum in March 2019, we discussed the potential to collect some bench-marking information on performance and customer satisfaction. To get us started, I have made some uggested questions, please to get in touch to make suggestions of your own.
More Homes Scotland have published an updated guidance note which updates the Affordable Housing Supply Programme process and procedures. This guidance superseds the previous guidance dating from January 2019.
The Scottish Government recently shared an updated model Scottish Secure Tenancy that reflects the changes made by the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014. Zhan McIntyre invites you to share the additional clauses your organisation is going to add to your tenancy agreement.
In its latest annual report, the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) said that 1,128 properties became homes again in 2018–2019.
Site visit to Port of Leith Housing Association’s latest MMR Development.
Mr Stewart visits project in West Lothian to learn more about pioneering initiative developed by Almond Housing Association in partnership with the Rock Trust.
Last year, hundreds of people from across the housing sector took part in the Housing, Trauma and Resilience Roadshow. Zhan McIntyre highlights some of the main learning from these events and shares the newly published report on understanding adverse childhood experiences and the housing sector.
Make Yourself a Home is a River Clyde Homes initiative that offers incentives to help people get started in their new homes in Inverclyde. Tenant Ryan share’s his story.
Zhan McIntyre, SFHA Policy Lead, discusses the first meeting of the Women's Housing Forum in Scotland.
Scottish Government have published guidance for social landlords relating to changes introduced by the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014. Zhan McIntyre highlights some of this guidance and invites you to share what you intend to do with the new processes and powers.
