East Kent Housing facts

Having East Kent Housing managing your council housing services will not change or affect the services you receive from your local housing team.  However our aim is to make improvements that you will benefit from in the future. The only change is the ‘management’ of your services from being managed by the council to now being run by East Kent Housing.

To explain a bit more about what East Kent Housing is and is not – we’ve put together a few facts for you:

What East Kent Housing is:

	An organisation set up and owned by the four local councils to run its council housing services.
	Run by an independent management board, which includes tenants, independent members and councillors, but remains accountable through a contract with the four councils.
	According to the government’s watchdog the Audit Commission, this is the best approach to managing housing services.

What East Kent Housing isn't:

	A private company, as it is still owned by the four councils. This is not a way of privatising council housing. Your homes are safe and still owned by your council.
	Your landlord. The council remains your landlord and you remain a tenant of the council with all the same legal rights.
	A profit making organisation, neither does it have shareholders. All savings must, by law, be used to improve services.
	A housing association, and it does not mean that your home has been sold to a housing association.