Managing the New Housing

This module examines the changing nature and role of social landlords. Students will obtain a detailed understanding of the legal regulation of social landlords, the nature of their strategic management, the underlying housing policies which are transforming the influence of such social landlords and the main features of the operation of social landlords. This will include the necessary organisational responses to the increasingly commercial environment in which they must operate, such as business planning and strategic management, the assessment and management of risk, and changes in the management ethos of housing associations prompted by both commercial considerations and pressures from central government and regulatory bodies.