National Tenant Voice seeks board
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The recruitment process has begun to find six of the 15 board members for the National Tenant Voice.
The other nine will come from the newly-formed National Tenant Council – a central part of the NTV. Recruitment company Hays will also be looking for a chief executive and a small number of support staff.
The NTV will be a non-departmental public body, designed to give tenants a say in government on issues that affect their lives. The 50-strong NTC is made up of tenants from across England, and will advise the NTV board.
David Cairncross, operations director at Hays Social Housing said: ‘We are very pleased to be recruiting for the second phase of this project. Having spent the past six months working so closely with Communities and Local Government department to recruit 30 of the 50 social housing tenants to sit on the NTC, we believe we are well placed to find the right people for the board, and the initial staff team.
‘Successfully completing this next phase of the recruitment will be instrumental in giving the existing NTV group the support it needs going forward.’
The board should be in place by the end of March.
The council met for the first time last week, and will now get together every three months.
For more on the first meeting of the NTC, see this week’s issue of Inside Housing, out on Friday
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John | 10/02/2010 5:20 pm
I'd disagree that exemption of capital gains tax from primary residence sales counts as a subsidy, although I'd certainly agree that there's an arguement for it being (re?)introduced - tax history's not my strong point - has it ever been taxed? The only people that benefit from high house prices are banks, estate agents and those with more than one property - none of whom I consider to be worthy of huge amounts of sympathy.
I would still maintain there's a difference between not paying one form of tax (but still paying others such as PAYE) and recieving a reduced charge for the use of a state owned asset. I think we'll just have to agree to differ on that point though.
I have no problem stigmatising people who believe they can live in cheap housing for life without trying to move on, I have every sympathy with those who despite trying have no choice but to remain in what can be demoralising and substandard accommodation. I'm afraid I don't know how to distinguish between the two, so being a glass half full sort of person I'd assume the best of people until given a reason to think otherwise.
I certainly don't read the Daily Mail!
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kass | 10/02/2010 9:12 pm
Len White | Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:35 GMT
I totally agree with you... It's incredible the fascist bigotry against social tenants - who are made up in its greatest majority by the poorest in terms or economic status in our country. If any section should have any subsidy should not be the poorest of society?
The ongoing massive subsidies to businesses big and huge, the non payment of taxes to non-resident city financiers, the banking support, the home owners (see another recent article where a reserach showed homeowners in this country are worth 400k as opposed to 18K for social tenants) aren't even noticed, and these are just some examples.
For some reason there is a section of people (ironically made up mainly by social housing professionals making a career and often a good living out of it from social housing) who can't stop attacking social tenants, without whom they would not have a job in the first place.
They are like those mad doctors who instead of curing patients they are meant to look after go about killing them, so that there won't be any more money spent on patients in future not realising that without the patients there wouldn't be any need for doctors as well.
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what rubbish | 12/02/2010 10:32 am
fascist bigotry???
Who are you talking about? You seem to mix and match your discrimination abitrarily.
So a question - is your beef with Social housing with each and every single person who works in it (from the office cleaner to the CEO) as you seem to genericise your comments constantly as the entire industry being evil, or is your issue with Senior Management of ALL housing providers?
Also - whenever a tenant comes to say that they don't agree with your opinion you verbally batter them stating they are either an idiot or brain washed. Is it not possible that YOU are discriminatory to all those innocents who work in social housing, and those happy tenants or is it totally that the world is a fool unless they are in total and utter agreement with you?
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