simon sezz
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Comment on: Housing delivery key to Big Society plans
I'm concerned - is the idea voiced by Melvin and "anonymous" that the only people who would get involved would be unsuitable ones?
There are significant numbers of organisations which are tenant-led, from ALMOs to co-ops. Some co-ops have been around for decades. There are also other, new types of social enterprise which deliver homes.
HAs are generally pretty useless when it comes to the empty homes agenda (except Hyde) but these other bodies excel at it - would it not be more useful to retain an open mind and see what we can do?
Your trade body, the NHF, recently published the results of a consultation they did in this area. They seemed to think that there was huge potential for freeing the HCA to assist smaller bodies and incentivising (because mere encouragement doesn't work) HAs to actually, you know, do something rather than simply play Sudoku on their Blackberrys.
Incidentally, I doubt that Cameron has a clue what he's talking about. But if you agree simply because you have a low opinion of social tenants, you're no better than he is.
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