East Kent
Housing facts
Having East Kent Housing managing your
council housing services will not change or affect the services you
receive from your local housing team. However our aim is to
make improvements that you will benefit from in the
future. The only change is the ‘management’ of your services
from being managed by the council to now being run by East Kent
Housing.
To explain a bit more about what East
Kent Housing is and is not – we’ve put together a few facts for
you:
What East Kent Housing is:
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An organisation set up and owned by the four local councils to
run its council housing services. |
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Run by an independent management board, which includes tenants,
independent members and councillors, but remains accountable
through a contract with the four councils. |
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According to the government’s watchdog the Audit Commission,
this is the best approach to managing housing services. |
What East Kent Housing isn't:
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A private company, as it is still owned by the four
councils. This is not a way of privatising council housing. Your
homes are safe and still owned by your council. |
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Your landlord. The council remains your landlord and you remain
a tenant of the council with all the same legal rights. |
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A profit making organisation, neither does it have shareholders.
All savings must, by law, be used to improve services.
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A housing association, and it does not mean that your home has
been sold to a housing association. |