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.
24 and 25 September, The Studio, Glasgow.
SFHA warns Scottish Government not to jeopardise transition to rapid rehousing by introducing changes to unsuitable accommodation orders prematurely.
Scottish Factoring Network Conference, 29 November 2019, Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow.
Extra funding is aimed at helping homeless people into stable accommodation.
Statement from SFHA in response to letter 10/7/19 from Living Rent.
The Scottish Government would like to hear your views on improving temporary accommodation standards. SFHA Policy Lead Zhan McIntyre outlines the key proposals and the federation's draft response.
Blog by Zhan McIntyre, SFHA Policy Lead.
The latest Homelessness in Scotland statistics have been published by Scottish Government. SFHA's Zhan McIntyre reflects on some of the findings.
