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“What percentage of managers and senior managers in your organisation already hold the new qualifications Registered social housing managers are expected to have under the act?”
Another respondent argued that it’s “a money thing” for landlords, who don’t have the funds to “find a solution for the problem, already with a lot of people in small houses without much breathing space.” One respondent believed that the Act will make relationships worse by
“creating tensions between tenants and landlords,” who have “bigger issues already, without the added pressure on landlords now.” Other takes included that they don’t believe residents “will even notice,” and that “there’s always going to be differences between tenants and landlords.”
CONCLUSION Intended to balance the relationship between residents and landlords, the Social Housing (Regulation) Act is introducing sweeping reforms that will affect all housing professionals. Tankfully, the majority of our survey’s respondents thought positively of the
Act, trades are trusted to look aſter the health and safety of residents, and the majority believe the culture of addressing issues of damp and mould across the sector has improved following the death of Awaab Ishak. Despite this positivity, however, our research also highlighted significant
ongoing risks in the UK’s housing stock at present. Tree-quarters of respondents reported at least some of their housing to be
unsafe, three-fiſths of respondents reported current issues of damp and mould present in their stock, and four-fiſths of respondents believed the timescales for correcting faults introduced in the Act are ‘unrealistic.’ Only time will tell if the measures included in the Act will be enough to enact
a real culture change, but – according to our respondents at least – this is change for the better!
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“Has the organisation appointed a new Health & Safety lead officer?”
“Are the timescales for correcting faults in tenants’ homes realistic?”
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