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🏘️ Recently joined a housing association or want to learn more about how they work? 👍 Book on to our popular Introduction to Housing Associations training course to understand the role associations play in social housing in Wales. By the end of the course you will have: - examined the importance of involving tenants in the provision of social housing; - identified the key financial and legal issues facing housing associations; - discussed the history and governance of housing associations. More info: https://lnkd.in/enE8sbXg

🏘️ Recently joined a housing association or want to learn more about how they work? 👍 Book on to our popular Introduction to Housing Associations training course to understand the role associations play in social housing in Wales. By the end of the course you will have: - examined the importance of involving tenants in the provision of social housing; - identified the key financial and legal issues facing housing associations; - discussed the history and governance of housing associations. More info: https://lnkd.in/enE8sbXg

🚨 Attention all Queensland community title scheme residents, workers, and investors! 🚨 Just a friendly reminder that important changes to the BCCM Act and its regulation modules commenced effective of 1 May 2024. It's crucial to stay informed and prepared for these already in place changes. Stay tuned for more updates and information by attending our Strata Community Education Seminar on the Sunshine Coast next week! More details in the link below! #BCCMAct #CommunityTitleSchemes #QueenslandLawChanges #ArcherstheStrataProfessionals #SmartStrata 🏘️

🏘️ Recently joined a housing association or want to learn more about how they work? 👍 Book on to our popular Introduction to Housing Associations training course to understand the role associations play in social housing in Wales. By the end of the course you will have: - examined the importance of involving tenants in the provision of social housing; - identified the key financial and legal issues facing housing associations; - discussed the history and governance of housing associations. More info: https://bit.ly/44pH5Ve

🚨 Attention all Queensland community title scheme residents, workers, and investors! 🚨 Just a friendly reminder that important changes to the BCCM Act and its regulation modules commenced effective of 1 May 2024. It's crucial to stay informed and prepared for these already in place changes. Stay tuned for more updates and information by attending our Strata Community Education Seminar on the Sunshine Coast next week! More details in the link below! #BCCMAct #CommunityTitleSchemes #QueenslandLawChanges #ArcherstheStrataProfessionals #SmartStrata 🏘️

🏘️ Recently joined a housing association or want to learn more about how they work? 👍 Book on to our popular Introduction to Housing Associations training course to understand the role associations play in social housing in Wales. By the end of the course you will have: - examined the importance of involving tenants in the provision of social housing; - identified the key financial and legal issues facing housing associations; - discussed the history and governance of housing associations. More info: https://lnkd.in/enE8sbXg

After each course, we ask participants to rate the content and speaker, and to provide feedback. 🤓💡 If you've ever attended our training courses, what did you find most helpful? 👇 Tomorrow, learn about a major NYC housing subsidy: CityFHEPS and how it differs from FHEPS👉 cssny.us/BPLC-CityFHEPS ---- Community Service Society of New York

DEVELOPING POLICIES, 4th JUNE, 10-11:30, ONLINE Let’s face it, most of us probably don’t want to spend too much time thinking about policies. They’re something we know we need to have in place but don’t want to spend too much time on. However, if you’re someone who does need to think about policies – maybe your job involves reviewing policies or drafting new ones – then you need to know more and so this brief session is for you. We’ll look at: · What are policies and why do we need them? · How do we go about writing and developing policies? · Which policies do we need to have in place? All sessions will be delivered by Sue Tucker, Operations and Development Manager, Stronger Kent Communities. Sue has worked in the voluntary sector for over 30 years. She joined the then CVS for the Canterbury district in 2008 and since then has specialised in providing support to the sector through both volunteer centre and organisational development services. https://ow.ly/xUon50RQAOH

ASSOCIATION BOARD MEMBER EDUCATION & TRAINING This made the Community Associations Institute's 2024 Policy Priority List. The narrative includes: Community association board members are faced with increasing responsibility to navigate compliance with local, state, and federal laws and greater complexities within communities; especially with the aging infrastructure and with a greater number of people living in community associations.  As these volunteer roles become more complex, legislators are looking for solutions to ensure volunteers have the property training and education to fulfill their responsibilities. As such, more states are considering mandatory education requirements for board members. CAI currently opposes mandatory board member education and supports board member education as a best practice. This policy and these issues will likely evolve this year and into the coming years. Join the Orange County Chapter's 2024 HOA-U courses to learn more about: Annual Legislative Update Community Association Law Finances & Reserve Studies Insurance Maintenance, Construction Contracts & Bidding Investing Association Reserve Funds https://lnkd.in/gcTfCfHA

Last Friday was a chance to present with RTPI colleagues from Norway and a pioneering community leader from Morvern in Scotland about 'Meeting Rural Housing Challenges in Norway and Scotland' for World Town Planning Day. I was able to: 1. do a (very) short intro to the Scottish planning and political system; 2. highlight the rural housing crisis in Scotland and the need for innovation; 3. showcase (with Sam Firth from Morvern) an innovative response to community-owned delivery of 21st century crofting; 4. explore some of the planning issues and obstacles that are still being faced despite NPF4s support for crofting and woodland crofting (and how to address these)...and advocate for support of such innovative community-led initiatives; 5. stress that we need to consider innovation in regulation not just innovation in delivery; 6. uncover that in Norway for 50 years a 'duty of occupation' legal mechanism has existed covering rural homes, allowing municipalities to ensure rural houses are retained as primary dwellings if required. This is rooted in a policy where second homes and primary homes are assigned different use classes (unlike in Scotland); 7. explain that in Scotland similar 'duty of occupation' controls do exist in the 1886 Crofting Act for this tenure type of rural housing... and as such controls are already fully supported by NPF4 and enshrined in our planning system; 8. and finally argue that in Scotland - where a Chief Planner letter (2011) strongly discourages the use of occupancy conditions - we nevertheless need to revisit this and also explore the idea of implementing use classes differentiating between second and primary homes. This to empower our local authorities to be able to prevent loss of primary dwelling stock to second home usage when required in specific locations...ensuring the potential application of a 'duty of occupation' as primary dwelling for all tenure types of rural homes, not just crofts. I'm convinced we need innovation in regulation not just delivery to meet the rural housing crisis, and that we have a model in our own culture of crofting that could be unpacked to serve everyone looking to live locally in rural Scotland, whatever the tenure. Please watch and comment with your thoughts! (and a big thanks to Julia Frost, Cliff Hague and RTPI Scotland for entrusting Place at the Table with the chance to speak)