AQW 3440/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 22/09/2022
Answered On Date: 06/10/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities what responsibility the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has to maintain its stock, given the Householder's Guide booklet appears to require tenants to sustain maintenance.

Answer:

The Housing Executive has advised that the “Maintaining your home - a householder's guide” document has advice for the housing sector generally on what householders can do to manage and maintain their home and keep repairs to a minimum.

The nature and extent of the responsibility of the Housing Executive to maintain its stock - in respect of tenanted properties - is to be found in its standard tenancy agreement which can be found at https://www.nihe.gov.uk/Documents/Customer-charter/conditions-of-tenancy

The Housing Executive’s contractual responsibilities or obligations as a landlord are set out in Part II of that agreement, while Schedule 4 provides more details on the responsibilities of both the Housing Executive and the tenant.