Rob Gershon

@Simplicitly

Council House Tenant, Full Time Unpaid Carer. Vaguely lost.

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  1. Retweeted
    Aug 20

    More from ITV Housing Stories on the real physical and mental harm being caused to social housing tenants.

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  2. Aug 16

    Does anyone know what the Expert Challenge Panel have said?

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  3. Aug 16

    Am royally eff-offed by the whole thing, anyway. It can and should be better but there's no sign it will be, so spending any time trying to do anything feels pointless.

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  4. Aug 16

    Let's have no more registered provider criticism of exempt accommodation providers while dirty loopholes like this exist. It's really hypocritical.

    Also turns out the Regulator for Social Housing waived the ‘Decent Homes Standard’ on Clarion’s request on the Eastfields estate in 2014, meaning housing conditions were allowed to fall below the basic legal requirements, which they did. Top scoop.
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    Aug 16

    Also turns out the Regulator for Social Housing waived the ‘Decent Homes Standard’ on Clarion’s request on the Eastfields estate in 2014, meaning housing conditions were allowed to fall below the basic legal requirements, which they did. Top scoop.

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    Aug 16

    Surprise, surprise -- the system denies tenants a voice. Well, it makes sense, they might otherwise say something that upsets the system...

    The Regulator told us it does not have the power to carry out visits to tenants properties or “proactively seek tenants’ views on the performance of their landlord.” So instead, they spoke only to Clarion and concluded that Clarion wasn’t failing. The tenants never had a voice.
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  7. Aug 16

    I always forget* the Value For Money ratings, too. God knows what they're supposed to mean now. It all feels like a very unfunny joke.

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  8. Aug 16

    A G1 rating is now basically meaningless, is where we are at the moment. It has no easily-understandable logical meaning.

    The Regulator for Social Housing doesn’t have the power to speak to tenants or visit their homes. I mean, is it unreasonable to ask, what’s the point?
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  9. Aug 16

    The point is that landlords still have to be regulated for financial viability to make sure they are spending money on things the government approves of. And in theory to regulate their governance, although here the definitions are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

    The Regulator for Social Housing doesn’t have the power to speak to tenants or visit their homes. I mean, is it unreasonable to ask, what’s the point?
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  10. Aug 16

    It is pretty frustrating that the government hasn't given the Regulator the power to tackle what is basically slum landlordism, but this is a political decision where they must figure improving people's homes and lives won't win any votes.

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  11. Aug 16

    Unfortunately that's how it is, until the much-discussed but not-acted-on Charter for Social Housing Residents makes it to legislation. The government have decided not to do this, and having previously turned down a proposal to give residents a say remains complicit in failure.

    The Regulator told us it does not have the power to carry out visits to tenants properties or “proactively seek tenants’ views on the performance of their landlord.” So instead, they spoke only to Clarion and concluded that Clarion wasn’t failing. The tenants never had a voice.
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    Aug 16

    As well as not speaking to any tenants on Eastfields, not a single property was visited or inspected by the Regulator. The Regulator only spoke to Clarion & “third parties”. So an inquiry into how tenant’s complaints were dealt with by Clarion didn’t involve a single tenant.

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    Aug 16

    Rats, leaks, collapsed ceilings. What we found on this estate led to an inquiry by the Social Housing Regulator. That inquiry has cleared Clarion, finding no evidence of “organisational failure.” We’ve now learned not a single tenant was spoken to as part of the inquiry. Not 1.

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    We spent two weeks on a housing estate owned by the UK’s biggest housing association, Clarion. What we found was shocking: homes falling apart, rats, leaks, mould and damp. Clarion has now apologised to the 500+ tenants - but how did it ever get to this?
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    Aug 12
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    System not fit for purpose. We need the Social Housing White Paper enacting into law. The has both hands tied behind it’s back.

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  15. Aug 12

    Dependency culture.

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  16. Aug 12

    Paying to be treated terribly, paying again for the Regulator to say it's fine to be treated terribly through fees that also come out of your rent, and then basically left to duke it out at the Ombudsman or in court while you also pay for NHF membership et cetera.

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  17. Aug 12

    Every membership fee paid by residents, too, through rent or other charges.

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  18. Aug 12

    Applies to other membership organisations, and other organisations too, of course. The self-policing thing really isn't working.

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  19. Aug 12

    These are what now pass for the highest standards in the sector.

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  20. Aug 12

    You can be a landlord that keeps thousands of tenants in damp, mouldy, vermin-infested homes and still be an member, on the plus side.

    NHF to remove membership from exempt accommodation providers if they don’t meet new standards
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