Latest news:

• Tuesday 31 August 2010

  Report on rural progress launched in Annaclone

  ‘Rural Review,’ the annual progress report on the implementation of our Rural Action Plan, was launched today by the Permanent Secretary, Department for Social Development, Will Haire. The report sets out the work undertaken by the Housing Executive in delivering our 5 year Rural Policy ‘Rural Homes and People’ which was launched in 2007.

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  Plans to invest £2.6m in Limavady this year

  "The Housing Executive’s strategy is to work together to get results", Deputy Chief Executive Stewart Cuddy told Limavady Councillors today when he met them to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  Plans to invest £2.8m in Cookstown this year

  "The Housing Executive’s strategy is to work together to get results", Walter Mullan Area Manager (Acting) told Cookstown Councillors today when he met them to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  Plans to invest £16.8m in Derry City this year

  "Our strategy is to work together to get results". Our Chief Executive, Paddy McIntyre, told Derry City Councillors today when he met them to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  External improvements for homes in Omagh

  Over 100 Housing Executive homes in the Shandon Park and Brook Valley area of Omagh along with a number of homes in Dromore are getting an external makeover at a cost of almost £300,000.

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  Gas heating for Limavady homes

  Forty nine of our tenants in Roemill Gardens are having new gas heating systems installed in their homes.  

• Thursday 26 August 2010

  The launch of our 39th Annual Report

  Further progress on the new homes target.

• Monday 23 August 2010

  Meeting with Belfast Council on housing plans

  Our Chief Executive, Paddy McIntyre, has warned Belfast Councillors that economic pressures will continue to impact on the housing budget for the city.

• Monday 23 August 2010

  Frank McCaw celebrates his 90th birthday

  Ninety is an age when most of us would be thinking of slowing down but that’s not an option for popular Clarawood man Frank McCaw.  

• Thursday 12 August 2010

  Advice on gas safety

  The Housing Executive is offering guidance for its tenants and private sector landlords regarding Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

• Tuesday 27 July 2010

  Lurgan's best gardens in bloom

  The Housing Executive’s Lurgan Office has announced the winners of this year’s Best Kept Garden competition which was organised in conjunction with the District Housing Community Network (HCN). As well as prizes for individual gardens there was a prize for Best Kept Housing Area which was won this year by Drumgor Heights.

• Wednesday 07 July 2010

  Investment of £4.8m in Armagh

  "Our strategy is to work together to get results", Chief Executive Paddy McIntyre told Armagh Councillors when he met them to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Monday 05 July 2010

  Our Rural Forum elects its Chair and Vice Chair

  Patricia McQuillan has been elected as the new Chair of the Rural Resident’s Forum.   The forum, which is administered by the Rural Community Network, was commissioned to give Rural Dwellers a voice in the forming of housing policies and initiatives where they directly affect rural communities.  Henry Phillips was elected as Vice Chair by the members.

• Monday 05 July 2010

  Picture perfect East Belfast

  "Inner East" is the title of an exciting cross-community photographic exhibition that was officially unveiled yesterday evening in the Oasis Coffee Shop on Castlereagh Street in East Belfast.  

• Thursday 01 July 2010

  Green-fingered pupils in South Belfast sow seeds of friendship

  Pupils from Botanic, St Malachy’s and Scoil an Droichid Primary Schools in South Belfast have taken part in a community led environmental project, facilitated by us, which has seen friendships blossom between communities and generations.

• Wednesday 30 June 2010

  Investment of £6.4m in Fermanagh

  "Our strategy is to work together to get results" Area Manager Lorraine Campbell, told Fermanagh Councillors when she met them today to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Wednesday 30 June 2010

  Investment of £4m in Dungannon and South Tyrone this year

  "Our strategy is to work together to get results", Acting Director of Housing and Regeneration Helen Walker, told Dungannon and South Tyrone Councillors when she met them today to discuss their District Housing Plan.

• Tuesday 29 June 2010

  Landlord registration extended across Northern Ireland

  Where three or more people from different families live together, the house or flat is known as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). The scheme which enforces the registration of HMOs is managed by us and has now been extended across Northern Ireland. This means that all HMOs are now required to be registered by their landlords or their letting agents by a specific date.

• Tuesday 15 June 2010

  Paddy McIntyre to receive an OBE

  We are proud to share the news that our Chief Executive, Paddy McIntyre, has been honoured with an OBE.  He was named in the Queen’s 2010 Birthday Honours list.

• Wednesday 09 June 2010

  Housing Executive warns of difficult decisions ahead

  Our Chief Executive Paddy McIntyre has met Newry and Mourne Councillors to discuss their District Housing Plan.