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my rent went to Whitehall –
position paper
Local Government Association (LGA)
"Our vision is to
create a system which promotes a sustainable local
authority housing stock, managed and funded via
local control. We need to create a system which
promotes and supports this vision."
This position paper sets out how the
Local Government Association (LGA), London Councils,
the Chartered Institute of Housing, CIPFA, the
Councils with ALMOs Group (CWAG), the Association of
Retained Council Housing (ARCH) and the National
Federation of ALMOs (NFA) believe local authority
housing finance should be changed.
We believe that councils and their
tenants should have the same rights to
self-determination as housing associations and their
tenants and that they should have sufficient
resources to enable them to manage their properties
and their areas efficiently and effectively in
perpetuity.
When the then Housing Minister,
Yvette Cooper MP announced in December 2007 that
Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the
Treasury would undertake a review of the Housing
Revenue Account (HRA) Subsidy System, this was
strongly welcomed by the local authority housing
sector. She was responding to a long held view that
the system is no longer fit for purpose and is an
obstacle to council tenants getting the homes and
services they deserve, and to councils providing
much-needed additional housing.
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