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Morning Briefing: the day after Housing Day
Recap on the best bits from a busy day of social media action yesterday
In the news
As those of you who have access to a Twitter account will be very well aware, yesterday was Housing Day – or to give it the usual title #HousingDay18.
The day involves social housing sector figures taking to Twitter (other social media platforms are available) to discuss housing issues and promote the work they do. We’ve featured some of the best tweets here.
This year, as is now traditional, Inside Housing led a series of debates about key housing issues with a number of sector figures. You can read the best bits from those debates here.
Marking the big day elsewhere on our site, we have an interview with housing minister Kit Malthouse carried out by housing day organiser Leslie Channon. His comments about requiring more transparency over fire safety made the news here.
On our homepage this morning, we have the latest detail from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) about the forthcoming league tables of social housing providers. The RSH reveals a likely timescale of 18 months to two years for their implementation and that councils, ALMOs and housing associations will all be covered by a single table.
We also cover worrying reports of soaring Universal Credit rent arrears in Wales. Following Gordon Brown’s comments yesterday, it is now the turn of another former prime minister – John Major – to warn about the welfare reform, saying it could lead to poll-tax style rioting, a warning echoed in a comment piece by The Guardian’s Owen Jones.
There is wide coverage for a report from Nottingham Trent University, which calls for a large programme of retrofitting housing to help the UK meet climate change obligations – which are, of course, in the news at the moment.
Elsewhere, the latest research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors notes Brexit uncertainty having an impact on transactions among homebuyers.
Deeley Construction has set up an affordable housing arm to work on projects with social housing providers.
The Birmingham Live has a report on a family with a young baby being thrown out onto the streets because the council believes they are “no longer homeless”.
In Scotland, the Scottish Housing Regulator is consulting on changes to the way regulation in the country operates.
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On social media
There was, of course, a lot of Twitter action yesterday – which is summarised here. Some more include Paul Hackett, chair of the G15, enjoying Ms Channon’s housing minister interview:
Great to see inspiring HA resident @LeslieChannon interview Housing Minister for #HousingDay18. Well done @AdeCapon for pesuading Leslie to take it on. I get a real sense the sector is up for seizing opportunity take transparency, governance, resident engagement to the next level t.co/zk5cz5k3uU
— Paul Hackett (@PaulHackett10)Great to see inspiring HA resident @LeslieChannon interview Housing Minister for #HousingDay18. Well done @AdeCapon for pesuading Leslie to take it on. I get a real sense the sector is up for seizing opportunity take transparency, governance, resident engagement to the next level https://t.co/zk5cz5k3uU
— Paul Hackett (@PaulHackett10) October 11, 2018
Some thoughts from Tom Murtha:
I think those who have helped to organise #HousingDay18 have done a great job today especially @LeslieChannon who deserves all of our thanks. We now need to reflect to see if we have achieved all that we hoped for. And consider what we do differently next year.
— Tom Murtha (@tomemurtha)I think those who have helped to organise #HousingDay18 have done a great job today especially @LeslieChannon who deserves all of our thanks. We now need to reflect to see if we have achieved all that we hoped for. And consider what we do differently next year.
— Tom Murtha (@tomemurtha) October 10, 2018
And some good stats on how it’s all gone down:
Further to the previous email the stats for #HousingDay18 were pretty epic. Over 894,000 twitter accounts reach with impressions in excess of 1.2 million. *puts hands together and apart in a clapping motion* @housingday@LeslieChannon pic.twitter.com/az5DdCinio
— Asif Choudry (@AsifChoudry)Further to the previous email the stats for #HousingDay18 were pretty epic. Over 894,000 twitter accounts reach with impressions in excess of 1.2 million. *puts hands together and apart in a clapping motion* @housingday@LeslieChannon pic.twitter.com/az5DdCinio
— Asif Choudry (@AsifChoudry) October 11, 2018
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