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East Midlands Regional Assembly
Government Office for the East Midlands - housing page
Department for Communities and Local Government
http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/rentingandletting/privaterenting/
- The second link explains government policy for strengthening the private rented sector through improved standards of the quality of its properties and landlords' management of those properties and tenancies. It points out a range of statutory requirements (such as licensing) and voluntary schemes (such as accreditation) that landlords and tenants should be aware of and includes links to useful information for tenants and landlords.
Homes and Communities Agency
The role of the HCA is to create opportunity for people to live in high quality, sustainable places. The HCA provides funding for affordable housing, bringing land back into productive use and improving quality of life by raising standards for the physical and social environment.
DASH - Decent and Safe Homes East Midlands
Decent and Safe Homes (DASH) East Midlands is a project funded by the Government Office for the East Midlands. DASH works with landlords, tenants and Local Authorities to raise standards in housing.
DASH is an East Midlands Regional Partnership Project sponsored by the 3 cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham and has been formed to help with the introduction of the Housing Act 2004. This aims to create a fairer and better housing market for all those who own, rent or let residential property while protecting those most vulnerable.
East Midlands Landlord Accrediation Scheme
The East Midlands Landlord Accreditation Scheme (EMLAS) is the first regional accreditation scheme, outside of London, to recognise the abilities of the landlord and not just the property standards.
The scheme has been in development since 2006 and boasts landlord and tenant groups as well as letting agents and Local Authority officers on its steering group. EMLAS works in partnership with Local Authorities to provide both landlords and tenants with up to date and relevant information and guidelines on all aspects of tenancy.
Intelligence East Midlands (IEM) is the region’s observatory. It facilitates research coordination and promotes access to research and data on the region in order to inform policy-making.
The East Midlands Public Health Observatory (EMPHO) is one of nine regional Public Health Observatories funded by the Department of Health in England. EMPHO is the regional health intelligence organisation providing information and analysis to support those working to improve health and reduce health inequalities in the East Midlands. More about EMPHO...
Home Information Packs website
Home Information Packs including Energy Performance Certificates will be implemented on a phased basis.
Housepricecrash.co.uk has housing market news, dozens of links, graphs and a discussion forum as well as other useful bits and pieces.
The RICS UK Housing Market Survey is one of the most respected and influential measures of the housing market in the United Kingdom. Increasingly used by City forecasters and the Bank of England, the monthly survey is often the first to identify the changes in the market
www.rics.org
24dash.com is a social housing and public sector news website where you can get the latest relevant news and publish your own press releases.
http://www.24dash.com/
Andrew Oswald is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick in the U.K. His current research lies at the borders between economics, epidemiology, and psychology. He previously held permanent and visiting posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Cornell.
There are many, many short papers available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/#2009
Some of the moiré interesting or relevant ones are:
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has set up a Housing Market Taskforce to address the root causes of instability in the housing market. You can track their progress and follow links to more in-depth studies at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/work/workarea/housing-market-task-force
B. Line Housing Information LimitedHousing Consultant Bob Line has dozens of useful links, data and reports, in particular: