ALMO Under Review Following Home Standard Breach

Gateshead Council, which owns around 19,000 homes, agreed last week to immediately update its management agreement with The Gateshead Housing Company (TGHC) and set a two-year deadline to decide the organisation’s future. In April the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) revealed that Gateshead Council had breached the Home Standard by failing to carry out fire risk assessments properly, as well as asbestos surveys and electrical safety checks. Measures in the new management agreement include new performance metrics for TGHC, covering a range of safety and housing management areas, plus a new regime of monitoring meetings with the council. Read more on Inside Housing.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/almo-under-review-following-home-standard-breach-62400?utm_source=Housing60&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_link&utm_campaign=H60