12/11/2024 9:18:22 AM Healthy Homes and Buildings By Emma Hardman Last night I attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Healthy Homes and Buildings roundtable debate discussing why building...
5/9/2024 8:53:59 AM Solving the housing crisis: every little helps By Emma Hardman We have a housing crisis. There is no doubt about it. There are not enough homes, and most definitely not enough affordable ones. The...
4/8/2024 2:38:33 PM Rents reviews: extension of rent settlement By Emma Hardman It was all change for social housing providers whilst I was away last week, with the new consumer regulation regime coming into force...
7/10/2023 12:29:05 PM A focus on supported housing By Emma Hardman Over the past couple of weeks, there have been various publications regarding supported housing, that I thought would be helpful to...
7/3/2023 8:16:36 AM Reflections from Housing 2023: Balance By Emma Hardman I spent last week at Housing 2023 attending the Women in Housing and Housing Heroes awards through to the closing address from the CIH...
5/19/2023 1:07:36 PM Renters Reform is (nearly) here By Emma Hardman After many years of discussion and consultation, the Renters (Reform) Bill was finally published yesterday. The fact that the publication...
3/29/2023 9:47:10 AM Updated how to rent guide By Emma Hardman The Government has updated the how to rent guide, effective from 24 March 2023. As a reminder, this guide has to be issued when a...
12/15/2022 2:15:09 PM The rent cap confirmed By Emma Hardman The 7% rent cap (with an exception for supported housing) for tenants was announced nearly a month ago and since then I've had lots of...
10/19/2022 8:30:40 AM An 11.1% rent increase? By Emma Hardman It is fair to say the rest of the Hardman household didn't quite share my enthusiasm for wanting to know the published inflation figures...
5/6/2022 9:29:34 AM Words of wisdom from Karren Brady By Emma Hardman Last weekend, as we welcomed another three great women into the partnership at Anthony Collins Solicitors, I listened to The Diary of a...
7/6/2021 3:43:16 PM NHF Leaseholder and Tenant Service Charge Conference 2021 By Emma Hardman Today I had the privilege of chairing the NHF Leaseholder and Tenant Service Charge Conference 2021. The conference included a wide range...
12/10/2020 9:52:42 AM Eligibility for housing post-Brexit By Emma Hardman Anyone who has looked at the Government website recently will no doubt have noticed the countdown - not to Christmas but to 31st December...