Response - Housing Corporation: Regulatory Code and Guidance

By: Jim Bennett
Published: September 2001

Response - Housing Corporation: Regulatory Code and Guidance

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.