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NHF: Housing Bill amendments don't go far enough

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Wednesday, 26, Mar 2008 12:00

The National Housing Federation is scrutinising the Government's amendments to the Housing Bill, which were tabled last night.

Ruth Davison, director of campaigns and neighbourhoods at the National Housing Federation, said: "We welcome the fact that the Government has amended the Bill and has recognised some of our concerns, but there are still a number of areas that need to be addressed.

"We are still concerned about the level of state control laid out in the bill, the lack of level playing field between profit-making and non-profit providers and regulation of associations' community activity.

"Housing associations should first be accountable to their boards, customers and communities and not the regulator. This bill still doesn't do that."

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For further information contact:

Joe Dumont, joed@housing.org.uk, 020 7067 1028 / 07990 638946 Paul Rees, paulrees@housing.org.uk, 020 7067 1026 / 07974 826587

Notes to editors

The National Housing Federation represents 1300 independent, not-for-profit housing associations in England. Together, our members provide two million affordable homes for around five million people.

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