Nice to see The Economist describe having less than 50% public housing as an obvious failing in a competitive capitalist city. They’re right - open, trading cities need to control land or the property market will eat your economy - but startling to see it asserted so casually.

Good long read from Carl Brown in Building News on the pressures facing housing associations as the economy bites. With comments from Paul Hackett CBE, The G15 chair Geeta Nanda and James Prestwich #ukhousing

We’re doing all we can to make sure NHS England workers benefit from quality new homes at Ashford & St Peter's.

We officially celebrated the completion of phase one of our development at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey. Read more here: bit.ly/3U0W9m0

Paul Hackett CBE Great to hear from you, Paul! It was a lot of fun :) And in case you’re interested, here’s our day 2 video.

Wish I could have joined you, but a lot on right now. Hope it was a great reunion.

On behalf of everyone at Legacy Optivo (Customer Services) our deepest condolences to the Royal Family on the passing of Her Majesty the Queen. Her selflessness and sense of public duty will endure as an inspiration to the nation.

It’s Employability Day and we’re sharing some stories from the 1379 people we’ve helped into jobs and training in the past year.

Jordan is part of our KickStart programme, helping young people into jobs. He says: “It’s opened up a lot of doors.”

#empday22 #wefillvacancies

Sheila volunteers with our Legal Team.

She says: “It’s really opened up my future and they’ve been really helping me gain back my confidence.”

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#empday22 #wefillvacancies

Ella gained a permanent role with us after joining our KickStart programme for young people.

She says: “After six months, I was offered a permanent job at Optivo.”

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#empday22 #wefillvacancies

Check out Gurol’s inspirational story…

💙💛 A race for Ukraine

Kind hearted Midlands residents have been collecting donations for those in need. Read more: bit.ly/3OZc6ae

This morning, we told leaseholders that Optivo won’t pass on any costs for fire safety remediation works for historic defects to their buildings. This includes work carried out relating to interim fire safety or management costs (like Waking Watch). More: bit.ly/3LAomLy

This is really positive news from Legacy Optivo (Customer Services). 👇

Inside Housing - News - G15 landlord confirms it will not pass on fire remediation and waking watch costs to leaseholders insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/g15-…

'Do we need a nationally-set minimum threshold for on-site provision? My view remains that national and local policy should require a proportion of on-site affordable housing' Legacy Optivo (Customer Services) CEO Paul Hackett CBE on the proposed Infrastructure Levy #ukhousing housingtoday.co.uk/comment/we-mus…

#Kudos Legacy Optivo (Customer Services) Paul Hackett CBE and team. Hopefully the first of many HA's that will provide this long awaited financial #safety to their leaseholders. 👍

Rents on the rise again in London as lack of supply pushes up prices. #ukhousing standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

Council house waiting lists ‘could double as Covid support ends’ due to structural under-supply of #AffordableHousing , and ongoing depletion of stock through #RightToBuy . #ukhousing independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Rising house prices and chronic a under-supply of #AffordableHousing , means ever greater numbers of #GenerationRent will have no option but to spend the rest of their lives renting in the #PrivateRentedSector . #ukhousing bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Our members stand ready to support efforts to help provide homes for Afghan refugees. We’re in close contact with Sadiq Khan @mhclg & London Councils about how we can work together to provide sanctuary to those in need.