Posted 30.11.16
Gov UK: Article and report link
This report sets out the findings and recommendations of the Tailored Review of the Homes and Communities Agency carried out between February and April 2016.
It recommends that the Agency continues as a Non Departmental Public Body, with a renewed and revitalised purpose, but the Social Housing Regulator becomes a separate public body.
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Posted 28.11.16
Homes and Communities Agency (HCA: Article link
The HCA has published a statutory consultation on introducing fees for regulating private registered providers of social housing in England from April 2017 in accordance with our statutory powers under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.
This includes a one-off fixed fee for all successful applications for initial registration and ongoing annual fee to fund the majority of costs of social housing regulation with the remainder funded by government grant.
This consultation will last for 6 weeks - the closing date is 9th January 2017.
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Posted 23.11.16
Homes 2016: Article link
Housing associations must improve their performance on value for money evidence, or the regulator will step in, the housing sector has been warned.
Fiona MacGregor, Executive Director of Regulation at the Homes and Communities Agency, told the Homes 2016 event that the regulator remained 'very strongly interested' in value for money and called on social landlords to provide a common framework against which to measure their performance.
She said: "We are very keen that the housing sector comes up with its own value for money metrics. If it doesn't though, we will take a look ourselves."
Fiona MacGregor added that she remained 'concerned' on the transparency of value for money statements by housing providers and said that many were still 'weak'.
She said that she wanted evidence that boards have a 'clear focus' on value for money and have the information to be able to hold their organisations to account on key measures around unit costs.
