Pay To Stay To Be Voluntary For Housing Associations

By offering to make ‘pay-to-stay’ voluntary for housing associations, Brandon Lewis is effectively discriminating against council tenants, suggests a lukewarm response from the Chartered Institute of Housing. The housing minister has announced an intention to table a series of amendments to the Housing & Planning Bill to deregulate the social housing sector. The move will remove housing associations from the public sector, following their reclassification as such by the Office for National Statistics. Among the measures, which include removing the need for housing association to seek the regulator’s permission before changing their organisations – mergers acquisitions and so forth – Lewis said that so-called ‘pay-to-stay’ would not be compulsory for housing associations. Read more on the CIH website.