Section: Audit & Regulation

End of an Era for Housing Corporation

The Housing Corporation ceased operation on 30 November 2008. The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 established the two new agencies that replaced it:

The Tenant Services Authority (TSA), which will act as a new watchdog for social tenants.
The TSA, led by the Chief Executive Peter Marsh, will regulate social housing landlords. It will set standards of management across housing association and, at a later date, local authority social homes.
The TSA will be required to listen to tenants' concerns and use its powers to make sure they are getting a good service.
It will also have powers to cut red tape for high performing registered social landlords and the ability to take action where tenants are not getting a fair deal; and
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), which will bring together responsibility for both the land and the money to deliver new housing, community facilities and infrastructure.
The HCA, headed by Sir Bob Kerslake, will ensure that homes are built in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable way, as well as promoting good design.
The HCA also has a key role to play in regenerating communities.

New Regulations

Source: Office of Public Sector Information

The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 SI 3002

This Order makes amendments and modifications to, and repeals of, provisions in primary legislation that make reference to the Urban Regeneration Agency, the Commission for the New Towns, English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation.

These amendments, modifications and repeals are in addition to those in the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 itself and are consequential on the coming into force of provisions of that Act relating to the establishment of the Homes and Communities Agency, in particular, in relation to it being the successor to those bodies in relation to a number of their functions.

The amendments, modifications and repeals are subject to transitional and savings provisions, the main purpose of which is to ensure, as far as necessary, that anything done by the predecessor bodies is treated as done by the Homes and Communities Agency (or Welsh Ministers, as the case may be), and to ensure that anything being done by one of those bodies on the commencement date may be continued by the Homes and Communities Agency (or Welsh Ministers, as the case may be).

Section: Audit & Regulation

End of an Era for Housing Corporation

New Regulations

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