According to consultants Baker Tilly, while the impact of welfare reform on the social housing sector has so far been less significant than expected, housing providers should still be wary of downgrading the risks. The company’s benchmarking survey of 70 housing providers to assess the impact of welfare reforms found that the average rent arrears…
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Economic optimism
Senior executives within RSLs are generally optimistic that the economy will recover in 2009, according to recent research from Baker Tilly. Baker Tilly’s ‘Crunch time for the social housing sector’ report found that volatility in the economy had altered the economic outlook of 86 per cent of respondents from housing associations and RSLs, but with…
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