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Comment on: Poor quality private homes a ‘health risk’
I wonder if Mr Shapps has read this after he has removed all the regulations from building, so that his friends can make more money.
Bring back the TSA and include the private sector in the regulation and then we might save the sector before it all goes wrong even more. How he can still keep on scrapping everything with no recourse to anybody else is beyond me.
Now he has scrapped most regulation why do we need him, that would save about £100,000 per year and that would build 2 houses straight away.
The thing that angers me is Shapps thinks that the private sector is the answer to all the problems how does he reconcile the £600 million cost to the health service. He should be making the rich private landlords funded by the LHA improve the condition of their stock and put back the building regs and make private landlord apply for change to HOMO with very strict rules for it to happen and limit the total rental to a rent of what would be earned if the whole was rented to one person. -
Comment on: Building regulations to be simplified
Well said PSR and Alpha.
These jokers have no real idea of what they are doing as they do not live in rented accommodation so do not know what makes a sound house and what space is required, if they want more room they add it or move to a bigger property, and they have never had anything to do with design or building of houses or anything else for that matter.
The problem we have is how do we get them to listen and act on sensible ideas instead of another Sir leading the team who is as much in the dark as tthey are. -
Comment on: Shapps: cabinet will back decision to scrap housing regulator
I am beginning to think that Mr Shapps has some hidden agenda he is not revealing. He is on a one man crusade to Squash the TSA without any thought to the tenants/residents. How can he know what tenants want when he is well fixed financially?
Get yourself to the TPAS Conference and face people you are going to hurt.
If there is to be a review, then everything has to be taken into account and with the input from Tenant/Resident groups as those are the people it is going to effect, not what he wants to see he was voted in and he will be voted out if he continues with this crusade and trying to affect the outcome of the review before it has happened. We are in need of help from somebody with some clout against this man. -
Comment on: Housing boss claims localism is a ruse to stop investment
Neil Hadden speaks with knowledge from the old days. I do not want to see the local authorities have any control over housing as if you think back to the introduction of the right to buy the councils tried to get rid of as many houses as they could and the same happened when ALMO’s, TMO’s and stock transfers came along hurray they said we can get rid of our responsibilities now and along comes Mr (rich)Shapps and anti-rent guru; and all he wants to do is to reverse this by passing all the control back to people who have know idea of how to manage housing that is why they were eager to get rid before, does he realise that some people want to rent even if they have the money (most have not) to buy, It must be nice to be able to own a house, a car (large) and aeroplane yet he denies the right for people to rent when it is their choice especially the elderly, infirm and those on low incomes who will never have the money to buy; let us get rid of him that has everything and replace him with somebody who cares.
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Comment on: Shapps knocked back on plans to scrap TSA
It is about time that David Orr checks some of his statements; it was tenants who did most of the work establishing the TSA. He may have been working to undermine what the Tenants were doing with some of the more doggy Landlords but the better ones have accepted the TSA and are working with the tenants not against them on the new standards put out by the TSA.
I think Mr Grant should go before he does anymore damage to the housing sector.
It is one thing to rearrange the regulatory authority but just to scrap it with no thought (or he is not telling us) of how it can be included within another department is pure idiocy.
I agree with an earlier comment that the whole of the housing sector should be shaken up before the private sector turns into another Rackman situation like we had some years back.
Get all the rented housing landlords together and the rental agents that work for landlords under one regulator so that there are standard tenancy agreements, minimum standards of service to be provided and the ability to move from area to area without loosing tenure rights. It would not be a one size fits all as that would not work but there can be standards, codes of practise, value for money and other things that are common to all parties and these should be included, it will take time and money to do it but the TSA have started the ball rolling with the RSL Associations and the other RSL landlords, now expand that work to include the rest of the rented sector. This could also fix rent levels for the various types of property/style and the different areas so that renting in a deprived area the level would be the same across the country, it will take some working out but I am sure it is achievable if all landlords are under the same umbrella of regulation.
Come on people get real we are in a mess do not make it worse by doing ill thought out thing that would make it far worse.
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