Right To Buy HA legal challenge

[andyofborg]

Yes but the government do have the power to change or reform the charity laws, which to be honest is something well overdue.

 

the charity acts are something which are regularly changed the last time being 2011 and before that 2006 and before that 1993. With assorted secondary legislation at appropriate intervals.

 

---------- Post added 10-05-2015 at 16:39 ----------

 

It is in the Conservative manifesto to replace it with a British human rights act, the Liberal Democrats stopped them doing it before.

 

actually they didn't stop them, it proved very difficult to write a british bill of rights which remained compatible with our commitments to the european convention on human rights and other similar obligations which wasn't the human rights act so everyone sort of gave up and did something else.

[I1L2T3]

It is in the Conservative manifesto to replace it with a British human rights act, the Liberal Democrats stopped them doing it before.

 

What are the differences?

[andyofborg]

What are the differences?

 

those nasty furriners wont be involved.....

 

though it would probably make it easier for the current or future government to say that these rights dont apply to everyone or are so important that they should be taken away from us and put in a safe place.....

[poppet2]

According to Radio 4 yesterday, there are going to be some legal challenges to the government's proposals of RTB for HA tenants.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Especially: what if the landlord is a registered charity?

[apelike]

Especially: what if the landlord is a registered charity?

 

I think most if not all HA's are registered charities but cant see why that would matter.

[PRESLEY]

wonder if the royals will get the rigjt to buy.

[I1L2T3]

I think most if not all HA's are registered charities but cant see why that would matter.

 

Because there are strict laws around charities disposing of assets at less than market values.

 

To make them do so would probably require a review of charity law and therein lies the danger - not every charity is set up with purely (ahem) charitable goals.

Edited May 27, 2015 by I1L2T3

[andyofborg]

Because there are strict laws around charities disposing of assets at less than market values.

 

To make them do so would probably require a view of charity law and therein lies the danger - not every charity is set up with purely (ahem) charitable goals.

 

in addition, the organisations governing documemts may actively forbid disposing of the houses.

 

i believe that a number of ha's have their origins in the desires of some very good people to provide housing for the less fortunate and when they set up governing charity they made sure that disposing of the homes was pretty much impossible, rather like Mr Graves did with sheffield's parks

[Ghozer]

I think there should be rent guidelines set (such as X amount per month for a 2 bed with GCH etc) and private rent cannot go more than a certain % above or below, leave HA's as they are, and work on the private rent market, for which the rent prices are ridiculous....

 

And it was cheap housing and the right to buy originally, that's caused so many to buy, then rent out at greatly elevated prices, while living somewhere else.....