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Regulator warns sector over stock sales
Housing associations have been warned they risk damaging the reputation of the social housing sector if they sell housing stock occupied by tenants. As part of a de-regulation drive, the Government has dropped the need
for associations to obtain permission from the Homes & Communities Agency before they dispose of social assets, although they still have to notify the regulator of sales that have taken place. The red tape was cut as part of a package of measures to get borrowing and spending by social landlords off the public expenditure books. This followed their reclassification by the Office of National Statistics. However, Fiona MacGregor, executive director of regulation at the HCA,
has warned HAs the agency will be keeping a particularly keen eye on social landlords disposing of tenanted stock because of a potential backlash from the public. Ms MacGregor said: “We’ll want to know about disposals of tenanted
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property out of the sector. We think that’s one of the areas that could bring the greatest reputational risk to the organisations and the sector. “Our interest in this is that you make sure you comply with the
consumer standards, being open and transparent with tenants so they know what the implications of being outside the regulated sector will mean for them and their tenancies.” Ms MacGregor insisted the regulator’s priority was in preventing
problems arising but she warned that the agency was prepared to step in and use its powers where necessary.
LGA chief attacks housing duty proposal
The influential chair of the Local Government Association has urged the Government to drop proposals for a new duty on councils to provide supported housing. Ministers are understood to be considering imposing new duties on
councils to provide “certain types of housing”, to ensure supported housing continues to be provided at affordable rent levels. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham Lord Gary
Porter said: “If anybody is talking about giving us new duties, they need to go away and they need to go away very quickly. “You cannot solve problems by making councils have duties to do
things. You have to give us the means to will the outcome. You can’t just tell us to do something. So if the Treasury come back at that position, that’s where we will be with it.” The Government plans to cap housing benefit for supported housing
tenants in line with local housing allowance (LHA) rates from 2019/20, with many existing providers warning this could make supported housing schemes too costly to run.
Uncertainty
Chartered Institute of Housing chief executive Terrie Alafat has already attacked the Government’s decision that the LHA cap will apply to all tenants in supported housing, not only those with new tenancies from April 2017. "It will have huge implications for existing and new supported housing schemes. For that reason, CIH is calling on government to reconsider this retrospective application, and bring it into line with the application to new tenants in the wider social sector. Ms Alafat also raised concerns over increased levels of uncertainty
affecting existing schemes. “The system of top up funding through a local pot means that providers are already considering whether they will develop new schemes; this measure will increase the risks to the viability of some existing schemes and in the long term, potentially reduce the overall provision of supported housing. That will mean vulnerable people will struggle to get the homes and help they need,” she added.
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