Home Find a Home About Your Home Maintenance Managing Money News Contact Coronavirus Update As the Government have recently reintroduced the mandatory wearing of face masks in shops and on public transport (unless exempt), all operatives working in your home will wear a mask. We ask that you wear a mask too and stay in a different room to where the operative will be working. This is to protect both you and our teams. Our offices at Alpha Court remain closed to the public, but if you need to contact us, please call 01904 636061. Further information on the Government’s guidelines on face coverings can be found here : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own We’ll continue to review how we deliver our services as local and national guidance changes and keep you updated. Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding. Kate Spencer Operations Director How we can help you Worried about money? We want to reassure you that no one will be evicted because of coronavirus. If you are worried about paying your rent because of Coronavirus, please call us so that we can talk to you about how we can help you with this. Worried about your personal safety? If you feel that you are at risk of abuse, it is important to remember that there is help and support available to you, including police response, online support, helplines, refuges and other services. You are not alone. Please talk to us. Access additional support if you're vulnerable You can register if you or someone you support has a medical condition that makes you/them extremely vulnerable to coronavirus. For example, you'll be able to ask for help getting deliveries of essential supplies like food. If you're not sure whether your medical condition makes you extremely vulnerable, register anyway. You can register yourself, or on behalf of someone else at www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable. If you've already received your shielding letter from the government don't forget to register too. Changes to our services Repairs We are continuing to do emergency repairs inside or outside of your home and have restarted non-essential internal and external repairs to your home. To help us in doing this, please make sure you clean the affected surface ahead of our team visiting your home. We can assure you that we have carried out a thorough risk assessment of all the work that we do to ensure it is safe for you and our colleagues. We may wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) depending on the type of work we are doing. When you book a repair, you will be asked whether you or any member of your household is shielding or is confirmed to have or is displaying symptoms of COVID-19, to protect both you and our colleagues. Although we are not yet booking new internal repairs at the moment, the team are getting prepared for this now to ensure our procedures are as safe as possible for everyone. Our normal repairs service will resume on 01 August. We appreciate this may be a little frustrating, however, our dedicated response team have been working hard to plan and prepare for this. We aim to reinstate services as effectively and efficiently as possible, whilst maintaining a safe environment for everyone. Planned external maintenance We will work with our partners to deliver any planned maintenance works to the outside of your home. These include external painting, fencing, structural improvements and re-roofing works. All this activity has been carefully risk assessed for safety and new social distancing procedures introduced. If any works are planned to your home, please ensure you carefully follow any guidance we provide on maintaining social distancing to protect both you and our team. If you have any concerns about the planned works or you are unwell, please let the site manager or one of our team know. Office closures To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our customers and colleagues, our offices are closed to customers. Paying your rent If you'd like to check your current balance or make a payment to us, you can do this via your online account through this website. Gas Servicing We're following the latest directive from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and meeting our legal responsibilities by continuing to undertake gas servicing in customers' homes Gardening Our contractors are now out and about on site carrying out grass cutting and maintaining communal areas. Due to the time away from some schemes contractors will be catching up on some areas of work, some hedging areas may take longer to resolve due to nesting birds. If you would like to highlight an area which you think we need to know about please use our contact page to do so. Finding a home to rent Allocations of new properties are slowly resuming across the region with each CBL provider responding differently. Please check with your local Choice Based Lettings provider for more regular updates Finding a home to buy We have a number of new homes available on a Low Cost Home Ownership basis, as Shared Ownership, Discount for Sale or Rent to Buy across the Yorkshire and Humber regions. Further details on these homes is available by emailing homebuy@karbonhomes.co.uk How we can help your community Supporting older and vulnerable customers We've been contacting our most vulnerable customers by phone to check on their situation and find out what type of support they need. We've already contacted over 700 of our residents and will continue this work over the coming weeks. If we have not been in touch with you yet or are unsure whether we have your contacts details, please contact us. Reporting Anti-Social Behaviour Our dedicated Housing Officers are continuing to work with our local partners including the police and local authorities to tackle anti-social behaviour in our communities at this time. We ask customers to please follow these guidelines to avoid any behaviour that may be considered antisocial: Do not invite external visitors into your home unless they are carrying out essential activities - for example, providing care, undertaking emergency repairs etc. Allowing multiple visitors into your home without good reason will be considered to be antisocial behaviour and will be tackled. Do not dump rubbish in your garden or near your home. Please use the bins provided by your local council. Do not burn the rubbish as it will create unpleasant fumes for surrounding neighbours. If you want to report anti-social behaviour, please contact us on 01904 636061 and we will do our best to tackle the problem. Getting in touch We're still here to help but we are running a reduced service across our customer relationship team. We have a dedicated contact us page on this website which you can use to get in touch with us but you can also: Call us: 01904 636061 9am - 5pm weekdays We're here for emergency repairs, rent payments and general enquiries. To help us continue to manage call volumes please use the telephone for essential matters. Post All offices are currently closed to visitors, but we are still accepting post to our Alpha Court address only. Write to us at: York Housing Association 2 Alpha Court, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO32 9WN Your Online Account Use your online account to check and pay your rent balance and update contact details. If you've not already done so, set up your account today. My Online Account Customer Portal Keep up to date with your rent. Report repairs or issues you may have. Find a Home Find a home to rent or buy "They would have to buy a magic wand and wave it around to make things any better. I just can't fault the service I receive. I am a very satisfied resident." Mr A from York York Housing Association 2 Alpha Court Monks Cross Drive Huntington York YO32 9WN Email: info@yorkha.org.uk Phone: 01904 636061 Homes to rent or buy across Yorkshire: Leeds, Malton, Scarborough, York, Beverley, Whitby and Selby. Part of York Housing Association Ltd is a Registered Society under the Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority No. 16826. 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