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The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced new measures to improve the standards, safety and operation of social housing. The bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 8 June 2022 and received royal assent on 20 July 2023.
www.communities.gov.uk The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Housing and Faith , is a junior minister position in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government . The current holder is Wajid Khan, Baron Khan of Burnley .
Public housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, [5] [6] then to enable slum clearance.Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that council houses should be provided for all, while the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw council housing "as a stepping stone to home ownership". [7]
Short title: English Devolution White Paper; Author: Ministry of Housing, Communities&Local Government: Date and time of digitizing: 11:29, 16 December 2024
The delayed white paper, originally expected in 2021, [20] was published on 2 February 2022. [37] [2] The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities described the white paper as a "moral, social and economic programme for the whole of government. The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how we will spread opportunity more equally across ...
The Regulator of Social Housing regulates registered providers of social housing in England. This function was transferred from the Homes and Communities Agency in October 2018. Until April 2012 it was performed by the Tenant Services Authority. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The Decent Homes Standard is a technical standard for public housing introduced in 2006 by the United Kingdom government. [1] It underpinned the Decent Homes Programme brought in by the Blair ministry (Labour party) which aimed to provide a minimum standard of housing conditions for those housed in the public sector - i.e. in council housing or by housing associations.
The Department of the Environment's 1987 white paper Housing: the Government's Proposals set out goals of reversing the decline in rented housing and improving its quality; giving council tenants the right to transfer to other landlords if they so desired; targeting money more accurately on the most acute problems; and encouraging the growth of ...