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Housing (Scotland) Bill
Finally the Housing (Scotland) Bill has been passed. The Bill was amended following the consultation carried out in 2009 to reflect the views of stakeholders. Among the changes made were the:
-Stengthening the role of tenants, homeless people and other service users, placing them at the heart of regulation through new duties on the SHR;
- Promotion of equal opportunities by placing a duty on the SHR to encourage equal opportunities and requiring social landlords to provide housing services in a way that encourages equal opportunities;
- Removal of the scope for profit-distributing businesses to register as RSLs, in view of the strength of feeling against this among tenants and social landlords;
- Extention of the scope of pressured-area designations which restrict the right to buy and devolving decision-making on this to local authorities; and
- Ending of the right to buy for new tenants entering the social rented sector or returning after a break.
To read more about the bill use the link below
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/lgc/inquiries/Housing/call.htm
Housing Policy Discussion
Link to discussion paper and webpage on housing policy debate which was launched by the Minister for Housing and Communities.
http://housingdiscussion.scotland.gov.uk/
