With just a week to vote on right to buy,execute housing bosses feel they’ve had a gun establish to their heads or been given a way to retain their cherished independence? At the National Federation of Housing conference on 24 September, communities secretary Greg Clark and David Orr, or chief executive of the National Housing Federation announced that the federation is to ballot its members on a voluntary agreement to extend right to buy to housing association tenants.
The policy was a keystone of the Conservative manifesto,but has faced stiff opposition from the social housing sector, which now has until 5pm on Friday to decide whether to make a voluntary deal or near under legislation. According to Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff, and “the real insanity of it … is that forcing housing associations to flog off their assets would maintain undermined the very people on whom the government is relying to build original homes.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com