Posts Tagged ‘housing associations’
Green Light for RTB extension to housing associations.
So the Governement has achieved what it set out to do in it’s pre election manifesto, with the Right-To-Buy (RTB) now to be extended to Housing Association tenants without the need to change or pass new laws, there will now be no battle in the House of Commons or for that matter the House of…
Read MoreHousing Associations until Friday to vote
Housing association tenants will be able to buy their homes under the Right to Buy scheme if a government deal is approved this Friday. Just last week at the National Housing Federation’s Annual Conference, David Orr, the chief executive sought the consent of members to put forward a voluntary offer to the government on Right…
Read MoreNHF comes up with new plan for RTB
A follow on to yesterday’s “Breaking News” Item where we mentioned Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron telling his party faithfulls at their conference that he is totally opposed to the right to buy scheme being extended, and that he would do everthing he can to stop the government from implementing it, well it may not…
Read MoreLib Dems against social housing RTB
Tim Farron the recently elected leader of the Liberal Democrats made it clear in his speech at their conference this week, that his party were against the government plans for right to buy for tenants of housing association homes. He made it clear he would not allow the government to ‘destroy’ social housing by extending…
Read MoreFuture of Housing Associations
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee is to investigate the viability and sustainability of the Housing Associations, the inquiry will have a particular focus on the proposed extension of the right to buy and how this, and a number of other recently announced government measures, may impact on the ability of housing associations to…
Read MoreHousing associations failing to build homes
David Orr, Chief executive of the National Housing Federation recently said, ‘The election didn’t make any difference to the underlying fact that we hadn’t built enough new homes,’ ‘We had not focused sufficiently on regeneration; unless we start doing both of these things very quickly we will not be able to house our children.’ Housing…
Read MoreNHF responds to Queen’s Speech
The National Housing Federation responds to the Queen’s Speech Henry Gregg, Assistant Director of Campaigns & Communications at the National Housing Federation response: “We are pleased to see a Housing Bill front and centre of the Queen’s Speech and to see the Government committed to getting more homes built. “Plans to identify and free up…
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