Councils are seeking clarification over the government’s
stance on town hall housing companies after the Social Housing Green Paper
hinted at plans to curb the use of subsidiary landlords to dodge Right to Buy
sales. A number of councils intend to press Whitehall officials to explain the
government’s position on local authority-owned housing companies as they review
how the green paper could affect enterprises they have set up. The document
said “local authorities should deliver new affordable housing through their
Housing Revenue Account (HRA)” unless they have transferred their stock or the
HRA cannot sustain new development. It added that where housing companies are
delivering and retaining affordable housing, ministers “would expect them to
offer an opportunity for tenants to become homeowners”. Read more on Inside
Housing.
‘Sham tribunal’: one family’s battle with Louisiana’s ‘feudal’ eviction
courts
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In rural Louisiana, eviction hearings are held at kitchen tables and other
unorthodox venues – and many justices have little legal training
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