Who they are and what they do...
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... The Tenant Services Association (TSA), previously known as the Housing Corporation, is the Government agency that funds new affordable housing and regulates over 1,500 housing associations in England. Its National Affordable Housing Program of £3.3bn for 2005/2007 will fund over 67,000 affordable homes – 16,000 of them for key workers. Their goal is to raise the standard of services for tenants.
For more information, you can view the TSA website at http://www.tenantservicesauthority.org/.
How we help them...
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... RM Data Solutions supports the TSA achieve their ambitions by providing IT and data resources for the following initiatives:
- Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR)
Subject to stringent regulatory processes, the Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR), requires housing associations to provide information such as all vacancies, accommodation and average rents across the country. The TSA, therefore, maintains a census of social housing throughout England.
Information from these surveys is of crucial value to the TSA in regulating a sector that is responsible for some 2 million households. The information gained from the RSR is used to identify regulatory defined risks (such as abnormal vacancy rates, overambitious expansion, unaffordable rents, or failure to consider projected demands). It allows the TSA to obtain necessary information to make investment decisions, and provides additional data for corrective procedures to be identified and implemented.
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- National Register of Social Housing (NROSH)
NROSH was created to support the objectives of more affordable quality homes and improved landlord performance.
RM Data Solutions were contracted this project in March 2008, and have been tasked with creating a single consistent social housing database. This will give the benefits of standardising the information available, providing data that is highly flexible, increasing the level of information management and analysis and reduces time and effort by negating the need to do a manual summary.
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