{"id":126540,"date":"2024-01-31T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126540"},"modified":"2024-02-01T04:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:48:42","slug":"church-times-clergy-bodies-write-of-fresh-anxiety-over-the-future-of-c-of-e-retirement-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126540","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Clergy bodies write of \u2018fresh anxiety\u2019 over the future of C of E retirement housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cperfect storm\u201d facing the Church of England<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/church-of-england-pensions-board\">\u00a0Pensions Board<\/a>\u00a0as it seeks to fund\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/retirement\">retirement<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/housing\">housing<\/a>\u00a0should be addressed by drawing on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/church-commissioners\">Church Commissioners<\/a>\u2019 assets, two clergy bodies argued this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Pensions Board\u2019s \u201cEnabling Choice\u201d consultation warns that the current provision \u2014 the CHARM scheme, which enables clergy to rent a property from the Board \u2014 has become unsustainable (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/17-november\/news\/uk\/clergy-retirement-housing-must-change-says-pensions-board-and-asks-for-ideas\">News, 17 November 2023<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/24-november\/news\/uk\/we-can-t-afford-to-save-for-house-clergy-say\">24 November 2023<\/a>). Its chair, Clive Mather, has referred to a dramatic rise in costs through inflation and interest rates. Demand was said to be \u201cunprecedented\u201d last year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/28-july\/features\/features\/clergy-and-the-cost-of-living-crisis\">Features, 28 July 2023<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/13-october\/news\/uk\/will-retired-clergy-of-the-future-find-a-home\">News, 13 October 2023<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In its response to the consultation, which ended on Wednesday, the Retired Clergy Association of the Church of England and the Church of England Employee and Clergy Advocates, part of the Faith Workers Branch of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/trade-unionsindustrial-relations\">Unite<\/a>, write that the Board\u2019s proposals \u201crepresent a radical break in the covenant of care between the Church of England and its clergy as to how they will be supported in retirement . . . bringing fresh uncertainty and anxiety to those clergy who have no other viable means of securing housing in retirement, and fuelling the broader perception among clergy that their ministry is no longer understood or valued by the institutional Church\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/2-february\/news\/uk\/clergy-bodies-write-of-fresh-anxiety-over-the-future-of-retirement-housing\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u201cperfect storm\u201d facing the Church of England Pensions Board as it seeks to fund retirement housing should be addressed by drawing on the Church Commissioners\u2019 assets, two clergy bodies argued this week <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0XqivC2EP6\">https:\/\/t.co\/0XqivC2EP6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1752737506393457037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cperfect storm\u201d facing the Church of England\u00a0Pensions Board\u00a0as it seeks to fund\u00a0retirement\u00a0housing\u00a0should be addressed by drawing on the\u00a0Church Commissioners\u2019 assets, two clergy bodies argued this week. The Pensions Board\u2019s \u201cEnabling Choice\u201d consultation warns that the current provision \u2014 the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126540\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126544,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126540\/revisions\/126544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}