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Research by Habinteg shows that someone joining a local authority waiting list for a new-build wheelchair-accessible home could have to wait up to 47 years.

25 Oct 2022 02:01 PM

Close to 200 people joined Habinteg and CAE’s 2022 Accessible Homes Week webinar to find out more about the government’s July decision to raise the mandatory accessibility standard for new homes in England.

3 Oct 2022 03:38 PM

Habinteg Housing Association is working with employee engagement and customer satisfaction experts MGI Learning (MGI) to embed a more customer-centric focus.

21 Aug 2022 04:47 PM

Today’s announcement from the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities that the accessibility standard for all new homes will be raised is a significant step towards tackling the UK’s acute and growing shortage of accessible homes.

29 Jul 2022 07:09 AM

Habinteg Housing Association has appointed Christina McGill as its Director of Social Impact & External Affairs.

20 Jul 2022 04:06 PM

On 21^st June, 2022, the Housing Ombudsman found severe maladministration of a report of a race hate-related anti-social behaviour (ASB) incident from July 2020.

21 Jun 2022 10:50 AM

Read about how Mike Nevin, a wheelchair user and member of Habinteg’s Insight Group, had to move from his home in Somerset to Durham, NE England because there were no suitable properties in Somerset.

20 Jun 2022 04:00 PM

With the Government planning to build 300,000 homes a year, Cllr David Renard, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association, fears no progress for disabled people unless councils & the Government collaborate on housing.

19 Apr 2022 03:40 PM

Wheelchair user Cal Grevers tells us why it wasn’t an option to wait until he was 30 to leave his parent’s home and join over 6,000 disabled people waiting for an accessible home in the city. 

14 Mar 2022 12:00 PM