| AdminHistory | The first housing visitor was appointed to the Corporation in 1970. Through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s housing visitors were part of the teams of Area Housing Offices. In the 1970s they visited tenants when they fell into rent arrears, did not maintain their property adequately, or, more positively, when the tenants were new to the town, or were known to have need for help in some capacity or other. Given the lack of an established community in the early 1970s, and the lack of established social services, the housing visitors in many cases became pseudo-social workers.
Later in the life of the Corporation, the remit of housing visitors was more focused on the recovery of rent and the physical inspection of Corporation property.
For a time there was also a fourth housing visitor in Glasgow in the 1970s, whose purpose was to screen prospective tenants as part of the overspill agreement. |