Housing Regulator Hold Open Meetings

The performance of the social housing regulator in meeting its targets and an update on how the organisation is working to ensure there is sufficient funding to build new homes will be on the agenda at the Tenant Services Authority's (TSA) first open Board meeting on 17 November 2009.

Members of the public are invited to attend the open meeting as observers to hear the Board also discuss plans for a new fund for Family Intervention Projects to encourage landlords to tackle problem families, and Board member activity and expenses.


TSA Chairman Anthony Mayer said open meetings would give the public an opportunity to see how the TSA Board operated and discussed key issues of concern to tenants and landlords.

"We are committed to openness and accountability – these are fundamental values of the TSA.

"We believe the public has a right to see how we deliver our objectives and we are committed to being open about how we delivering value with public money. We want to develop a new relationship of transparency between tenants and landlords. It's right we hold ourselves open to account in this way," he said.

The Board will consider items of an open nature during part one of the meeting. Part two will consider items exempt from open publication because they cover confidential matters, such as the formulation of policy.

(CD/KMcA)