Government Give Social Tenants a Voice
The government has launched a new group which will see social landlords and their residents explore ways to improve tenant engagement over building safety.
Social housing tenants are to join their landlords in a new government-backed ‘best practice’ group to look at ways of improving how tenants can communicate concerns over fire and building safety issues in the future.
The government today launched the Social Sector (Building Safety) Engagement Best Practice Group that will see eight social landlords take part.
Housing associations including Clarion, Optivo, Chelmer Housing Partnership and Phoenix Community Housing will be part of the group, with Sheffield City and Stockport Homes also listed as members.
Each social landlord will be joined by one of its residents at the group’s monthly meetings to discuss and agree short-term initiatives to be piloted across the organisations to ensure residents are better informed about the safety of their buildings and have a greater say in work carried out.
The group will present its findings to the government after six months, and these findings will be used to shape future policy on tenant engagement.
The launch of the group follows the Social Housing Green Paper last August, which committed the government to establishing a group of social landlords to look at tenant engagement.
Source: Inside Housing