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The wrong debate about regulation of social landlords

The wrong debate about regulation of social landlords

November 17, 2015

Reclassification of housing associations was an accident waiting to happen,  but it’s wrong to let it determine what kind of regulation should apply to the sector. It’s ten years since Steve Wilcox in the UK Housing Review first warned of the possibility that housing associations could be reclassified as public bodies. At that time the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, borrowing rules, housing policy, tenant involvement

The redevelopment of Earls Court will demolish 760 homes as well as the famous exhibition centre. Photograph: Sarah Lee

Tenant groups in race to take ownership of councils’ homes

December 13, 2013

The new right-to-transfer finally allows tenants to own their homes again, but time is already running out. The faltering history of council tenants’ attempts to become collective owners of their own estates entered a new phase last week when right-to-transfer regulations finally took effect in England. It’s taken more than five years, two governments and […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, tenant involvement

Power to the tenants

June 4, 2012

The housing minister, Grant Shapps, has just finished consulting on a new set of rules, refining laws introduced in 2008, to give council tenants the right to take over the management of their estates and request that ownership ‘be transferred from the council to a local housing association’. ‘Nobody knows the needs of a neighbourhood […]

Category: Housing | Tags: tenant involvement

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