Response - Housing Corporation: Regulatory Code and Guidance
By: Jim Bennett Published: September 2001
Shelters responded in September 2001 to the Housing Corporation Regulatory Code consultation paper, stating the need for its effective regulation of housing associations' practice.
- Response - Housing Corporation: Regulatory Code and Guidance (PDF 182.0 KB)
Summary
For Shelter there were three key areas of housing associations' practice it was essential that the Corporation effectively regulated:
- lettings policy, particularly in relation to applicants nominated by local authorities as being in priority housing need
- management of tenancies and the need to pursue all other avenues before seeking possession
- balancing business case decisions on management issues with the needs and circumstances of individual residents and potential residents.
