The Housing Secretary Michael Gove is encouraging social housing tenants to complain to the government, spearheading the ‘Make Things Right’ advertising campaign. When residents are unsatisfied with their landlord’s final response, they should escalate their complaint to the Housing Ombudsman. In addition to time limits for landlords to investigate and fix damp and mould, Awaab’s…
The damp and mould crisis in English social housing affects up to 160,000 homes, confirmed in a report by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). Following an investigation into dampness and mould in the social housing sector, sparked by the inquest of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, a report issued by the Regulator of Social Housing…
Introduction – Technology (IoT) to Monitor Retrofitting in Social Housing At least 15 million homes need to be retrofitted by 2030 to meet 2050 carbon targets. The same homes would need to have further measures installed again after 2030. Doing this would more than triple the UK’s current rate of energy efficiency installations. While the…
How Can IoT Reduce The Risk of Fuel Poverty To Your Tenants? It seems quite ironic that I’m sitting here in sweltering heat in the middle of July as I prepare this blog about fuel poverty and the challenges we face in the current climate and how winter will soon be here to test us…
It’s a damp subject: Breaking the mould in social housing. Many varying root causes can lead to dampness and mould in a property, and the overall impact on tenant wellbeing is familiar across the rental and affordable housing sector. Tenants report distress, daily living disruption, financial implications, and a genuine concern for health-related mould issues…
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