News - 19/01/2010
Tenants Encouraged To Have Their Say
River Clyde Homes’ tenants are invited to a Tenants’ Conference on Saturday, 30th January at the Express Holiday Inn in Greenock. The subject is: ‘How Your Rents Are Spent’ and the aim of the conference is to:
Describe how tenants can become more involved in River Clyde Homes’ housing finance matters;
Explain how tenants can affect decisions made about how rents are spent and
Discuss how River Clyde Homes can develop a rent re-structuring policy to reduce unjustifiable differences between the rents of similar River Clyde Homes’ houses.
The meeting will run from 10.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. A buffet lunch will then be provided.
Over the next year (2010/11) River Clyde Homes expects to spend in the region of £1million a month improving existing homes and a further £20million on regeneration projects, with tenants’ rents helping fund this investment.
RCH Chief Executive, Lynne Carr, said: "River Clyde Homes has enjoyed a successful two years, keeping its commitments to tenants and has started one of the biggest building programmes in Scotland. Tenants, rightly, want us to maintain rents at an affordable level that is comparable with other social landlords in the area.
"That is why we gave a legally-binding guarantee that we would not increase rents for five years after transfer by any more than RPI and we remain fully committed to delivering this key promise for our tenants."
The conference will include a short presentation from David McCready, Director of Operations and Neighbourhoods and a talk on rents and tenant participation from Issi Wilson of the independent Tenants’ Information Service. This will be followed by a discussion of 'How Your Rents Are Spent' by Jim Aird, Director of Corporate Services at River Clyde Homes.
Tenants will then be asked their views on River Clyde Homes' budget priorities and how we can make rents fairer.
River Clyde Homes Chairman Roy Steel is encouraging tenants to attend. He said: "This is an exciting time for tenants in Inverclyde with record investment in housing.
"We want to see even greater tenant participation, which we see as being vital to the long-term success of River Clyde Homes and events such as this have been organised to give our tenants a greater say on the future of housing services in their communities."
Anyone wishing to attend should please phone Jackie Dunlop on (01475 714976). Transport can be provided, if required, on request, to and from the venue or if you have a disability and require special transport. We can also provide information in various formats on request. Lip speakers, note takers and sign language interpreters can also be provided.
