Repair Work Commitments in Housing Association and Shoreham-by-Sea Resident Authority Homes: Tenants or Landlords?
If you live in social Housing, your rights and duties as an occupant likely differ from if you lived in private rented Housing.
One grey area which occupants tend to do not have understanding in is who pays for residential or commercial property repair work and upkeep in social Housing, especially if the damage is not the renter’s fault.
Do the repair work responsibilities in housing association and regional authority homes fall to the renter or the property manager? The answer is – it depends.
In some cases it is clear cut that the occupant is responsible for a repair, and often it’s obvious that the property owner should pay up, but what takes place when it isn’t so black and white? Or, what occurs if a housing association neglects their repair responsibilities and leaves their tenant living in disrepair?
This guide plans to assist you establish if your social Housing property manager is attempting to shirk their responsibility and what to do about it if they are.
If you live in social or council Housing and your proprietor is declining to make necessary repair work, we can assist.
Repairs and Maintenance in Social Housing
What Is A Housing Association?
No guide to making real estate association grievances would be total without a complete description of what a real estate association is. These are non-profit making business, which own numerous homes, and are in the business of renting these homes out.
Where a private property manager may only have one or a handful of homes, a housing association might potentially be renting hundreds at a time. All of the profit made from leasing goes towards maintaining and enhancing the homes, as well as extending the home portfolio. Housing association homes that are leased to low-income groups is typically provided the name social real estate. It is the in fact non-profit making organisation you would make a claim for real estate association compensation against.
We can assist you with housing association payment claims, call us on the number down at the end of this guide to learn how we can assist you.
Following Your Housing Association’s Complaints Process
Your Housing association will have its own formal complaints procedure. You should have been given details of this treatment when you signed your occupancy arrangement. If you don’t have it, call your Housing association and request for a copy in writing.
You need to follow this treatment correctly, only when this treatment stops working to get your Housing disrepair repaired, will there be a path to making a compensation claim.
We can help you to make injury claims for an injury or health problem brought on by Housing disrepair. Call us on the number down near the bottom of this guide to start your claim today.
Taking Your Housing Association to Court for Housing Disrepair
As soon as you have completed your Housing association grievances treatment, you will then have to wait 8 weeks. Throughout this 8-week period, your Housing association should solve your complaint for you. If it does not, then you will need to bring a claims case against them, which will either be settled out of court, or litigate for judgement.
We can help you take your Housing associated to court. Call us at the number at the bottom of this page to find out how we can do this.
