Housing officers’ top priorities revealed

Insight01.04.25by Katharine Swindells

Inside Housing Management surveyed over 600 frontline housing staff. We wanted to find out about the biggest issues affecting your job, your organisation and the sector more broadly. Katharine Swindells reports on what we found. Illustration by Michael Driver

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