Better Homes, better Lives with GHA

[Dexter St. Clair]

some shooting took place today.

GHA chief executive Taroub Zahran is standing down and vice chairman Fred Shedden resigned with immediate effect.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8206162.stm

[well skelpt coupon]

Howdy,

Will this not-for-profit organisation hand her successor £180,000 a year?

Regards

[onyirtodd]

Howdy,

Will this not-for-profit organisation hand her successor £180,000 a year?

Regards

GHA will probably decide they need to offer more to attract a 'better standard of applicant'.

[My Kitten]

Howdy,

Will this not-for-profit organisation hand her successor £180,000 a year?

Regards

GHA will probably decide they need to offer more to attract a 'better standard of applicant'.

aye

Thing is, it is more than likely true. Yet, any one of us here could do a better job.

[onyirtodd]

Howdy,

Will this not-for-profit organisation hand her successor £180,000 a year?

Regards

GHA will probably decide they need to offer more to attract a 'better standard of applicant'.

aye ::):

Thing is, it is more than likely true. Yet, any one of us here could do a better job.

Perhaps not any of us Perhaps this time they'll employ someone with a background in social housing.

I've said before that GHA has become a job creation programme. There's no incentive to the job GHA was set up to do and thus, eventually, have to wind up GHA. By continually screwing things up GHA will probably outlive most of us.

That said; I passed Dundasvale Court the other day for the first time in ages and have to say I'm impressed by the appearance of the flats. I've no idea what they're like inside nowadays but externally they look very OK.

[Mori]

GCC

Friday 04 September 2009

Views sought on Glasgow's future housing needs

Glasgow City Council has launched a consultation on its draft Local Housing Strategy (LHS), to look at the future of all Glasgow’s housing across all tenures (2011-2016) and set a clear direction for investment in this sector.

The consultation runs until 18 December 2009, during which time responses and views are wanted from groups and individuals with an interest in Glasgow’s housing sector; including home owners and tenants, people looking for a home, statutory agencies for health, transport and community planning, voluntary and charitable organisations, homelessness organisations, Local Housing Forums, social and private landlords and the general public.



The consultation is based around the Local Housing Strategy’s aims:

1. To advance the regeneration of the city

2. To raise the city’s housing in all tenures to satisfactory standards, maximising energy efficiency, with affordable costs, and to improve the quality of our neighbourhoods

3. To meet people’s changing needs for housing and promote independent living through housing support where needed

4. To prevent and alleviate homelessness through the delivery of effective services

5. To promote equality of access to appropriate housing and housing services and to monitor relevant processes effectively

6. To promote the effective delivery of housing services in the city including housing information and advice

Local Housing Strategy

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Anyone used this initiative ? seems a good way to move on to the property ladder.

First-Time Buyers

scotland.gov.uk

The Scottish Government is committed to helping people on low to moderate incomes to meet their aspirations to become home owners, where that is sustainable for them.

Its Low-cost Initiative for First Time Buyers (LIFT) brings together several ways to help households get onto the housing ladder. These include:
the New Supply Shared Equity Scheme to allow first-time buyers to buy a new build property;
the Open Market Shared Equity Pilot Scheme to allow first-time buyers to buy a property on the open market;
Rural Home Ownership Grants (RHOGs) These are grants that help towards the costs of acquiring, building or renovating a home for people in rural areas who could not otherwise afford to buy. Further information is available here Helping you become a home owner in rural areas;
shared ownership where households buy part-ownership of a property and make an occupancy payment to a registered social landlord on the remaining portion; and
GRO grants for owner occupation These are grants to private developers to build houses for sale. They are used both to introduce housing for sale in areas with little or no private housing and to help meet local shortages.
What is shared equity?

Shared equity is a way to buy a home without having to fund all of it. When you buy a shared equity home you pay for the majority share in it and the Scottish Government pays the rest under an agreement which it enters into with you. You own the home outright, but the Scottish Government holds a security over the proportion of it has funded. When you later sell your home (or earlier if you want to increase your stake), the Government will receive the value at the time of sale of the percentage equity stake funded. If, for example, the Government funds 40 per cent of the purchase price, when the property is sold 40 per cent of the sale value of the property will be returned to the Scottish Government.

Who is shared equity for?

Both shared equity schemes are open to all first-time buyers on low to moderate incomes. Some buyers (for example, people currently living in council or housing association housing or those from the armed forces) may be given priority if there are more buyers than available houses.

The schemes can also sometimes help people who are not first-time buyers, for example those who are looking for a new home after a big change in their household circumstances. They may also be able to help disabled people to access more suitable housing.

[Mori]

ET

Introducing a new-look Glasgow


GHA unveils Phase 2 of its programme to regenerate the city's housing stock
THESE are the stunning images of homes which are to be built for Glasgow Housing Association. GHA has unveiled plans to build more than 100 state-of-the-art new homes in Govan and the city centre.
The two sites are at Summertown Road in Govan, where 47 homes are planned, and Duke Street/High Street, where a further 54 are planned. As shown in these artist's impressions, the properties will have between one and four bedrooms and include terraced homes, cottage flats, flats and semi-detached homes.
It is planned that 18 will have wheelchair access.
The new homes will also be environmentally friendly, having been awarded a Very Good rating under Ecohomes standards, an assessment scheme run by Building Research Establishment Ltd (BRE), which grades each house.
Work is due to start in spring next year, subject to planning approval.


Riverford Road

[My Kitten]

More sloppy ET journalism - Riverside Road is in Newlands not Pollokshaws, its Riverbank Street. The photoshopping is terrible - even I could do a better job of stealing google earth graphics!

Nice of GHA to let locals know about the plans before the press.

[The Egg Man]

City Building has been doing the work on the southside since Connaught hauled out. City Building's bid was cheaper.

"Connaught close to collapse.

Devon-based social housing giant Connaught is on the brink of collapse, it was reported.

The property services group has £220 million of debt and will be put into administration by its bank creditors under UK insolvency procedures, according to the BBC.

The group, which employs 10,000 people, is expected make an announcement later.

Shares in the company have lost about 90% of their value since June when it emerged its contracts would be hit by public sector spending cuts. "


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 72468.html

[Mori]

Draft Consultative Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2011/12 to 2015/16






Glasgow consultation


Aim(s):
This consultation aims to gather views and opinions on the Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) which sets out the priorities for investment in affordable housing in Glasgow over the next 5 year period 2011/12 to 2015/2016 and to demonstrate how these will be delivered.
Consultation start date 25 October 2010
Consultation end date 05 November 2010
Feedback date Due 30 November 2010
Method(s) of Consultation Exhibition/Conference/Event, On-line Questionnaire
Target Group(s) Stakeholders, General public