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Forbes' Housing & Regeneration eNews  March 2019

Housing Management Conference

 

15th May 2019

Village Hotel Bury

 

Staff dress down for Calderdale SmartMove

 

Right to Rent -

more Wrong than Right?


Strategic Partnerships - Making Affordable Homes Happen

Homes England introduced Strategic partnerships in 2018, an ambitious new mission to partnership with all areas of the housing industry sector to provide a response to the long-term housing challenges facing our country. The plan announced in the 2018 budget was to secure £653 million in grant funding from the Affordable Homes Programme, which will deliver an additional 13,475 affordable homes by March 2022. By partnering with housing associations Homes England is enabling more land and funding to be released to developers who want to make a difference and invest in places that have the greatest need to deliver new homes. The deals on offer to housing associations through these partnerships also include homes for social rent in areas where affordability pressures are high.

 

Usage of inaccessible work email accounts during employee's maternity leave

The Employment Appeal Tribunal ("EAT") held in SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Jackson that it can be unfavourable treatment under the Equality Act 2010 to send a woman on maternity leave an important email at an email address that she can't access. However, it will be necessary for a tribunal to consider the reason why the email was sent in that way.

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Housing Management Conference

Village Hotel, Bury. 15th May, 9.30am - 4pm

Forbes Solicitors' Housing and Regeneration Team are resurrecting their hugely popular Bury Seminar, which will focus on a wide range of issues faced by front line housing practitioners.

The conference includes two headline topics each followed by breakout sessions covering a vast array of topics which routinely affect housing providers. There will also be a Question and Answer Panel where housing experts will be on hand to deal with prominent issues.

Relevant Third Sector Organisations and Charities will attend the event to facilitate partnership working.

The cost of the conference is £65 plus VAT which includes lunch. If you book three places, you will receive a fourth place free.

CLICK HERE for further information and to book your place.

 

 

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Staff dress down for Calderdale SmartMove

Several of the Forbes' offices took part in a dress down day in February to raise money for Calderdale Smort, a homeless charity with close links to the Forbes' Housing and Regeneration Team.

Click here for more information on Calderdale SmartMove.

 
 

 

Right to Rent - more Wrong than Right?

Following a Judicial Review, the Court has found that Sections 20-37 of the "Right to Rent Scheme", as brought in by Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016, are incompatible with Article 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights due to discrimination on the basis of nationality.

 

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Overcrowding in social housing the highest since government records began, 24 years ago

The English Housing Survey released their annual report for 2017/18 on the 31 January 2019 and it made interesting reading. The social rented sector had the highest rate of overcrowding, and the lowest rate of under-occupation; both increased between 2016-17 and 2017-18.

The main headline from the survey was that overcrowding was 8 times higher in social housing than in owner-occupier dwellings, this is the highest since government records began 24 years ago, the below quote from the English Housing Survey suggests the disparity between social rented and owner-occupier dwellings:

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