As you will have heard, Housing Associations face a period of change, for example rent reduction and pressure to deliver more from less. Housing Associations are encouraged to consider mergers as a way to achieve...
Posted 01 Jul 2016
The Benefit Cap is reducing and will be set at £20,000 for a household outside London and £23,000 for households within London. Exceptions include those where any member of the household is disabled, or a...
Posted 30 Jun 2016
We have recently published a resident involvement impact statement. Please see our summary or read the full report on our publications page.
Posted 24 May 2016
We have carried out one of our regular satisfaction surveys at Hornsey Road and Tollington Park. This survey asked about residents’ views about services paid for through the service charge. Twenty two per cent of...
Posted 24 May 2016
‘Make May Purple’ is the Stroke Association’s annual stroke awareness month, which takes place every May. Keniston staff have been showing their support to help to raise awareness and essential funds for the Stroke...
Posted 19 May 2016
We have recently had a fire in a property that Keniston Housing manage. The Fire Brigade advised us that the cause of the fire was a mirror left on a window cill reflecting sunlight onto...
Posted 10 May 2016
We want to support our tenants to prevent arrears of rent and service charges arising and act quickly to avoid rent arrears building up. We want to help tenants meet their payments and help those...
Posted 06 May 2016
In the Summer Budget 2015 the government announced that the time limit for backdating Housing Benefit for working age claimants was to be reduced from 6 months to 1 month from 1st April 2016 This...
Posted 26 Apr 2016
Fee-Free bank accounts launched Millions of bank customers across Britain stand to benefit as nine major banks launch fee-free basic bank accounts from 1 January 2016. The accounts will be available to anyone who doesn’t...
Posted 20 Apr 2016
Last year the government announced that tenants of housing associations will be able to buy their own homes. This scheme for Right to Buy is being piloted in fie large housing associations across the country....
Posted 18 Apr 2016