Four Million Homes

Four Million Homes: Knowledge and Action for Change in Social Housing

Providing guidance and training on resident rights and how to stand up for them.

The Four Million Homes programme is a new two-year government funded initiative. It's designed to bring about change in social housing. The programme provides free knowledge, guidance and training to residents in social housing. It involves information on tenant rights and the things you should expect from your landlord.

The Four Million Homes project offers:

• Free webinars - Monthly sessions tackling issues relevant to social housing.
• Guidance for social housing residents - Guidance on issues including repairs and maintenance, anti-social behaviour, dealing with your landlord, and much more.
• Sign posting to other resources
• You can access all of these services via the Four Million Homes website.

Join the Resident Sounding Board

Are you interested in getting more involved with the Four Million Homes programme? It feeds into what you, as a social housing resident, want to see from the programme, and what you would like the outcomes to be. If you are interested in getting involved, check out their website.

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Upcoming Webinars

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Training session – How to run an effective residents’ association

Online or in person on Wednesday September 18, 13:15 - 16:30

A residents’ association is a group of people who live in a neighbourhood and decide that they want to get together to deal with issues that affect their local community. The group can include tenants, shared owners, leaseholders and homeowners.

This session sets the context and explains why residents’ associations are so important.

This session will cover:

• What is a residents’ association?
• Why have a residents’ association?
• Will a residents’ association be possible where you live?
• What support can you expect from your landlord?
• The roles/responsibilities of resident association committee members; dealing with difficult situations

Venue:

Jesmond Community Library
St George’s Terrace, Jesmond
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 2DL 

Phone: 
0191 281 2385

The session is open to all social housing residents.

Tea and cakes will be the provided and there’ll be lots of opportunity to network and share experiences. A support person is welcome to attend the training with you if needed and the venue is wheelchair accessible.

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Free webinar : How to get people involved

Online on Tuesday 10 September 14:30 - 16:00 and 19:30 - 21:00

This webinar will look at how to get people involved: whether its about finding out and organising around a shared issue you're facing with your landlord, or about engaging more people in your resident group or association.

One of the things that often comes up in Four Million Homes sessions is to how to get other people involved.

We’ll look at the principles behind active involvement and we’ll hear from speakers about examples of what they’re doing and what works well.

As always, there’ll be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and for discussion.

Session is open to all social housing residents. Closed captions will be enabled.

Book here!

Training sessions are open to all social housing residents and are recognised by the Chartered Institute of Housing on completion of the session.

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