How would a Community Gateway offer options to communities wider than on housing issues?
As a housing organisation whose purpose will be to provide social housing, a Gateway could not support non-housing issues unless supporting them led in some way to improvements in the provision of the housing. However, there is now a wide recognition that you can’t make improvements to homes without making improvements to wider issues that go to make up a local neighbourhood. So there will be a number of areas where a Community Gateway would be expected to resource wider issues, such as tackling anti-social behaviour and improving the local environment. Where a community identifies issues that are not directly part of a Community Gateway remit, it would work in partnership with other organisations, such as the local authority, Sure Start, the police, local schools and others to ensure that opportunities are provided to local communities. Most other organisations now recognise the importance of involving local people in decision-making, and a Community Gateway would be a catalyst, where
