TENANTS IN WALES are proving to be much more positive about stock transfer than their counterparts in Scotland. Two ballots this month have ended in ‘yes’ votes. In Rhondda Cynon Taf, they voted 58% in favour of a move to RCT Homes on a 55% turnout. Earlier, tenants in Monmouthshire voted 60% for a transfer
TENANTS IN TAUNTON have voted overwhelmingly against stock transfer. In a ballot result announced by Taunton Deane Borough Council this week, 69% of tenants voted against a switch to Deane Housing and 31% in favour on a 69% turnout. However, tenants of five estates in Sheffield have voted in favour of transferring their 3,000 homes
London’s suburbs are in danger of becoming dormitories with no jobs as they gear up for more new homes, according to a report by the London Assembly. Housing associations will be able to take greater risks in the financial markets under new treasury management rules, according to Inside Housing. The Housing Corporation has published a
TENANTS IN INVERCLYDE have voted yes to stock transfer, breaking a run of four successive defeats for the policy in Scotland. In a ballot result announced this afternoon, they voted 71% to 29% in favour of moving to housing association River Clyde Homes on a 65% turnout. The result was hailed as ‘good news for
The government will amend the law so that people leaving the armed services do not fail to get priority for social housing because they lack a local connection, housing minister Yvette Cooper said today. At Harrogate, John Hills warned that social housing could end up ’warehousing the poor’ unless issues of inequality and worklessness were
TENANTS IN SALISBURY have voted decisively against stock transfer. Only 29% voted in favour of the plan in a ballot result announced today; 71% voted against on a 74% turnout. Councillors in the Wiltshire town will decided what to do next at a meeting on 11 December.
More estates in Sheffield have voted in favour of stock transfer. More than 70% of tenants on the Hyde Park Walk & Terrace and Richmond Park, Birklands & Athelstan estates said yes to transferring their 596 homes to Sacntuary and Manchester Methodist housing associations. These were the last in a series of votes set up
COUNCIL TENANTS in North Shropshire have voted overwhelmingly in favour of stock transfer. In a ballot result announced today, 79.5% of tenants approved a switch to Meres and Mosses Housing Association on a 71% turnout.
Housing associations who inherited council housing have been ‘highly successful’ in delivering improvements to tenants, new research by the Joseph Rowntree Association has found. More than one million tenants have switched from local authority to housing association tenancies during the 20 years stock transfers have taken place and the research found that housing associations typically
COUNCILLORS IN CRAWLEY have voted to cancel a stock transfer ballot after opinion surveys showed overwhelming opposition among tenants. The decision follows a row over the true costs of upgrading the council’s 8,500 homes and the defection of a Conservative councillor to the Liberal Democrats over the issue. The ballot had been due in the