Rents & Housing Services

• Are you concerned that you are not recovering your legitimate rents and housing service costs through the housing benefit system?
• Are you worried that future changes in housing benefits will threaten your income?
• Are reductions in support grant finance resulting in deterioration in the availability and quality of housing support to your clients?
• Is the economic climate putting strains on your relationships with the local authorities, RSLs and other stakeholders?

Resource Solutions can help you:

• Develop your supported housing strategy.
• Restructure your rents and housing service charges in compliance with any changes in the regulatory framework.
• Optimise income by ensuring that all necessary, reasonable and eligible housing service costs are recovered through the housing benefits system.
• Secure the agreement of local authorities and landlords to revised rents and service charges.
• Represent you and your tenants at tribunals in the event of rents and service charges being restricted unreasonably by local authorities.
• Establish a viable model of rents and service charges to guide future property acquisitions or changes in your existing accommodation service.
• Ensure your housing services budget enables you to meet audit requirements and maintain financial control of housing services income and expenditure.

To find out more contact us.