Hannah Fearn

One of the landlords piloting the direct payment of housing benefit to tenants has warned the implementation of the bedroom tax has left it with a ‘crisis just around the corner’.

Housing providers need to think harder about how they attract and retain young staff in the fight to become employers of choice, delegates at the Chartered Institute of Housing conference in Manchester heard.

Housing leaders should give up their power to make decisions and become mentors instead, passing down responsibility for day-to-day management of organisations to more junior staff.

Britain’s rapidly ageing population and the radical restructure of the National Health Service presents housing with a unique commercial opportunity that could help attract new investment into the sector, a chief executive has claimed.

A future Labour government would establish a decent homes standard for private rented housing to bring the private sector in line with basic standards for social housing, the shadow housing minister has revealed.