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Tenants and Residents Associations (Tenants Participation)
Why start a tenants' / residents' association?|
What is a tenants' / residents' association? |
Tenants and Residents Associations in North Ayrshire|
Thousands of people have improved the area they live in by joining together with their neighbours & forming a tenants' and/or residents' association.
Why start a tenants' / residents' association?
This has often been described as the vehicle for a tenant's "voice" within their area.
There are a lot of reasons for tenants / residents to join together to form an association. Here are just a few of the main ones:
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To organise around issues such as, housing transfers, regeneration of neighbourhoods, repairs, housing services, problems with neighbours.
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To have a representative voice.
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To enable tenants to communicate with their landlord
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To influence decision making that affects your and your neighbours' homes.
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To give accurate advice and information to tenants / residents
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To increase the sense of belonging to a community
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To campaign on certain issues e.g. for better play facilities; for better housing conditions
What is a tenants' / residents' association?
Tenants / Residents' associations are generally community groups made up of local people acting in a voluntary capacity to promote and defend the interests of tenants and or residents in their area. Various formats may be possible when setting up a local group. For example a tenants' association for tenants only, or possibly for tenants of one particular landlord, or residents' associations for all adults in the community, or some variation of these, or action groups formed round a particular issue. Groups can involve both tenants and residents of an area. What is important are the aims of the group and this should be set out in the group's constitution.
Tenants' / residents' associations can:
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Provide a collective voice for tenants in an area, act as a focus for consultation and an organisation to lobby for changes
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Develop extra services through self help schemes e.g. lunch clubs
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Offer advice to local people and represent individual tenants when dealing with authorities
Most tenants' / residents' associations hold regular meetings open to all tenants in the area, but conduct their business through a smaller committee. The strength of any tenants' / residents' association lies in the involvement of local people in the activities of the group. It is quite easy to get started with a small amount of people who are keen to do something for the area.
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Tenants and Residents Associations in North Ayrshire
Three Towns Area
Ardrossan
Anderson Terrace Area Residents & Tenants Association
Barrie Terrace & Hunter Avenue Residents Association
Montgomerie Street Tenants and Residents Association
Winton Court Residents Association
Saltcoats
MACKAN Tenants & Residents Association
Saltcoats High Flats Tenants & Residents Association
Stevenson
Darg Road area Tenants & Residents Association
Hayocks Tenants and Residents Association
Irvine & Kilwinning Area
Irvine
Castlepark& Eglinton Tenants and Residents Group
FullartonTenants Association
Kilwinning
Corsehill Tenants & Residents Association
Garnock Valley & North Coast Area
Dalry
Blair Residents Association
Largs
Largs Tenants and Residents Association
Skelmorlie
Skelmorlie Tenants & Residents Association
West Kilbride
Meadowfoot Tenants and Residents Association