|
The Mayor’s New Cross bursary Award |
|
Monday, 23 March 2009 |
|
The Mayor’s New Cross Award is a bursary for students at Goldsmiths College, and was created to commemorate the 14 young people who died in the New Cross Fire in 1981. It is an annual award of £20,000 which is divided equally between one male and one female student. It will be awarded to eligible students who have strong academic ability and potential to study for an undergraduate degree at Goldsmiths.
You can download an application form here.
For further information on the award contact Goldsmith's Bursaries and Scholarships Officer on 020 7919 7214.
|
|
|
House of Lords Queen's Speech debate 11.12.08 |
|
Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
|
11th December 2008
1. House of Lords Queen's Speech debate – Focusing on National Tenant Voice, energy efficiency in social housing and the perceived failings of all sections of the housing system
**********************************************************
1. QUEEN’S SPEECH DEBATE – HOUSE OF LORDS
The following extracts from the House of Lords debate on the Queen's Speech refer to social housing and are relevant to ALMOs.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour, Trustee of Shelter):
(On National Tenant Voice measures contained in the Local Democracy, Economic Development Bill) It is welcome that the Government are now taking action to give tenants in social housing a greater voice. I hope that that will develop into a broader expansion of rights and scrutiny so that council housing can become integrated into the new regulatory regime. As I know from my experience as chair of a housing association, the right level of scrutiny and accountability can be a real force for continuous service improvement and a drive for excellence.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Communities and Local Government News Release 7 January 2009 |
|
Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
|
7th January 2009
1. Communities and Local Government News Release - £18 million deal approved to buy further new homes for affordable housing through Government's National Clearing House scheme
************
1. £18 MILLION DEAL APPROVED TO BUY FURTHER NEW HOMES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Communities and Local Government News Release
An £18 million deal which will provide more affordable housing through the Government's National Clearing House has been announced. This is the largest deal so far agreed with a major housebuilder through the Clearing House Programme.
The deal provides 379 affordable homes on sites across the country for families who would otherwise be on waiting lists, following the agreement between the Homes and Communities Agency, Bovis Homes, and a number of Housing Associations.
This means that 4,800 homes in total have now been brought into use as affordable housing for a total of £160 million, with more deals in the pipeline.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
|
Four million social housing tenants in England will, for the first time, have a statutory regulator to champion their rights from next week. But those big landlords - initially, housing associations, followed by local councils in two years' time - who believe that the new Tenant Services Authority (TSA) will simply assume the supervisory powers of the soon-to-expire Housing Corporation had better wake up. A quiet, consumerist revolution is under way. "Our vision for the TSA is very different from what regulation has been under the corporation's tenure," insists its new chief executive, Peter Marsh. "It is about starting entirely from new." Read more |
|
|
Defend Council Housing News Release |
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
|
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
FOR THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF ALMOs
19th November 2008
1. Defend Council Housing News Release – "Tenants condemn robbery from rents scandal"
**********************************************************
1. "TENANTS CONDEMN ROBBERY FROM RENTS SCANDAL"
Defend Council Housing News Release
Defend Council Housing (DCH) have reacted angrily to the government's draft subsidy determination for 2009-10 which they claim increases the 'robbery' from council tenants (difference between the total rents tenants pay and the allowances given for the management, maintenance and repair of council homes) by a further £248 million to £1.83 billion next year. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Monday, 17 November 2008 |
|
Present plans allow for fewer than the 5,000 homes PM originally set as minimum qualification for 'ecotown' |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 1 - 6 of 135 |
Housing news