I’m still here. But matthew685 is also over there - where the air is fresh and clear. There you’ll find some #housing and #photography stuff. Give me a wave #ukhousing
@whatsthepont @PaulIanTaylor@shirleyayres @managerspeak If a jobs worth doing it’s worth doing properly. So much of the friction in change is overcoming inertia - once you’ve decided to take a step and started moving it’s pretty much the same effort to take a big one as a small one
@Simplicitly @grantshapps It was slightly tongue in cheek. I agree a morality regulator would be a disaster. But something that makes organisations self-aware of the ethical priorities implicit in their decison to eg build new over address damp and mould might prevent those failures in the first place?
@Simplicitly @grantshapps Maybe if the Regulator added a “Morality” rating, but while the big V features so strongly as the sign of success, I’m afraid the morals will always come second (or not at all)
@Simplicitly @grantshapps Hmmmm. The important (IMHO) “sub-market” nature of rent levels is put under a lot of strain if the economics features too large. And don’t get me started about the moral/economic arguments around service charges…. 1/2
@Simplicitly @grantshapps Or alternatively, something as fundamental as Housing Policy should be based on neither something as fickle as politics nor as financially driven as economics, but on need and compassion?
@Simplicitly @wheatley_martin @alistairmcint14@RSHEngland You’re right. Gradings are necessary, but not sufficient. All I’m saying is that Boards need to have ambition beyond gradings
@wheatley_martin @alistairmcint14 @Simplicitly @RSHEngland The challenge for landlords is to care about the customer not about the grading from the Regulator. Gradings are a symptom not a cause….