Housing Executive

Housing policy faces challenges from many directions

Paul Gosling on June 18, 2021, 9:05 am | Readers 1215

For all the focus on integrated education, if communities continue to live separately then little progress will be made towards integrating our society. So developing more areas of shared housing is essential if we are to make progress. But the lack of genuinely shared communities is only one of the housing challenges facing Northern Ireland today. There is more generally a shortage of social housing, compared with demand, leading to increasing waiting lists. This is not simply a matter of demography. It …

Red Sky on Spotlight, minister’s sleepless night?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 4, 2013, 12:22 am | Readers 806

The first half of tonight’s BBC NI Spotlight investigation (now available on iPlayer) looked at the history of Red Sky losing its contract with the NI Housing Executive. Examples of poor workmanship; charging for work not done, sometimes in buildings that no longer existed; and claims of the Red Sky contract being targeted for sectarian rather than business reasons. Mandy McAuley’s investigation then looked at the attempts to get the NI Housing Executive to extend Red Sky’s contract. It was …

Housing Executive out of control according to Stormont’s PAC…

Mick Fealty on March 20, 2013, 3:27 pm | Readers 62

This is interesting, not least in the light of the Red Sky controversy and the DUP Minister’s subsequent decision to stripe the Housing Executive of its powers… It found that there was a culture within the Housing Executive that discouraged staff from raising concerns, including the use of IT to attempt to identify an anonymous whistle-blower. Ms Boyle said: “The practices we found give the impression that staff who raise concerns in the course of their work or in a …

“A number of items have been removed for examination…”

Pete Baker on August 9, 2010, 11:55 pm | Readers 184

The BBC report that police have searched an office at the Policing Board headquarters and the home of the board’s chairman Barry Gilligan. From the report In a statement, the PSNI said: “Searches have been conducted in Belfast as part of an investigation into matters concerning development land at Nelson Street in Belfast city centre. “A number of items have been removed for examination from an office and a house.” A spokeswoman for the Policing Board said it could confirm that …