Thursday, 16 August 2018

Key Proposals In The Social Housing Green Paper


·         New 'league tables' of housing providers based on key performance indicators, surrounding services such as repairs and neighbourhood management. This could be linked to housing grant.
·         Consideration to scrapping of the current 'serious detriment' test, to allow 'Ofsted-style' tougher consumer regulation
·         New home ownership options such as allowing tenants to buy as little as 1% of their property each year through shared ownership. This would only apply to new shared ownership purchases.
·         Ditching of plans to force social landlords to offer fixed term tenancies rather than lifetime tenancies in social housing
·         Ditching of plans to force councils to sell off their most valuable social housing when it becomes vacant
·         The potential introduction a new stock transfer programme from councils to 'community-led' housing associations
·         The return of guaranteed debt funding to help the development of affordable homes, and longer term 'strategic partnerships' for developing housing associations
Download the Green Paper from the GovUK website.

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