Stephen Orme

The Office for National Statistics has this morning announced that housing associations in Northern Ireland, as well as those in Scotland and Wales, are to be re-classified as public bodies.

Recent research reports by the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Fabian Society have pointed to growing affordability concerns in the private rented sector, caused by changes and cuts to Housing Benefit.

Stephen Orme, our Policy and Public Affairs Officer, and Housing Rights footballer, gives an overview of our inaugural football tournament.

Housing Rights has partnered with Advice NI to deliver training to housing associations on the impacts of Welfare Reform in Northern Ireland.

The training, organised with local housing associations including Fold, Helm, Choice and others as well as the Northern Ireland Federation for Housing Associations, was organised in advance of an open day for tenants held in Girdwood Community Hub on 27th June.