Tag: Housing Management
Birmingham forced to increase council rent charges
Birmingham City Council's Cabinet is set to approve a 3.1% rent increase for council tenants at its meeting on 8 March 2010 in accordance with the government's national rent policy. Council tenants will now have to pay an additional £2.10 over 48 weeks in 2010/11, although they will be exempt from paying rent for 4 […]
Council tenants can now ‘home swap’ over the internet
Birmingham's council tenants will be able to swap their homes with social housing tenants from anywhere in England for the first time thanks to the internet. The council has selected HomeSwapper.co.uk as its web-based mutual exchange partner, providing Birmingham City Council tenants with a simple, safe and effective way to exchange homes with other council […]
Training for a brighter future
Cllr John Lines, Cabinet Member for Housing talks about his experience as an apprentice and the need for similar schemes for today’s young people. “As National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, I've been thinking back to when I worked as an apprentice myself. It was just after I'd left school and it was working as […]
Rent arrears hit record low
Birmingham City Council has reduced rent arrears to under £10 million- the lowest figure in over ten years. Following the introduction of rent payment holidays as part of the Council's Business Transformation programme a two week rent payment holiday was first introduced over Christmas 2008, which helped the council to reduce rent arrears by £1.1 […]
