The East Midlands Regional Housing Strategy has been launched

Seamless delivery of the regional agenda and increased efficiency of housing associations - while reducing the regulatory burden on them - are at the crux of the new action plan announced by Ministers today to mark the successful conclusion of the Government's End to End Review of the Housing Corporation.

The Housing Corporation has today announced a new organisational structure as it gears up to the task of delivering the largest affordable housing programme in its history and regulating the growing housing association sector.

The Race Equality Network is holding a seminar for the housing sector on how to consult and involve black and minority ethnic tenants and communities. The seminar will be held in Leeds on 13 July.

The Housing Corporation has announced that it has made three statutory appointments to the Board of St. Helens Housing Association Limited, a registered social landlord which manages around 300 homes in the St. Helens area of Merseyside.

The Anti-Social Behaviour Unit has launched the website www.together.gov.uk

York residents Peter and Audrey Hawley will be guests of honour at an official ceremony in Harrogate this week, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Housing Corporation.

Annual report of the Making Things Happen Capacity Building Training and Small Grants Programme

Issue 2 of a joint Housing Corporation / CABE newsletter has been published

Details of average rent and target levels for associations in all local authority areas are now available on the Regulatory and Statistical Return website, http://www.rsrsurvey.co.uk/