{"id":33778,"date":"2023-04-06T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/06\/michael-gove-says-government-made-mistakes-on-social-housing\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:48:27","slug":"michael-gove-says-government-made-mistakes-on-social-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=33778","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gove says government made mistakes on social housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Michael Gove has admitted past mistakes made by the government over social housing have contributed to tenants&#8217; voices not always being heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Appearing on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme, the housing secretary was challenged over decisions taken by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010, including abolishing the social housing regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He told Nick Robinson some housing associations had a culture where &#8220;black and white figures on the accounts&#8221; were put ahead of &#8220;heart and soul engagement with the residents&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It follows the case of Sheila Seleoane, whose body lay undiscovered for two-and-a-half years in her south London flat, despite neighbours repeatedly raising concerns with their housing association and the police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65204331?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Michael Gove has admitted past mistakes made by the government over social housing have contributed to tenants&#8217; voices not always being heard. Appearing on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}