Housing Associations: a legal handbook

by Christopher Handy, John Alder

Housing a legal handbook is the definitive guide to the law affecting housing associations and social landlords. This is the only legal guide to housing associations and manages to be both comprehensive and highly accessible and practical so those who live in housing associations, their advisers, and those who manage social housing understand the rules that cross many different areas of law.The book aims to provide a framework for the housing practitioner and lawyer working in, or with, the sector. For those already acquainted with social housing law it provides perspectives and insights demonstrating how the law has evolved and developed. It identifies the principles and rules unique to housing associations and highlights other areas of law which have a distinctive application.Contents •General principles of housing association law•Regulation and regulatory powers•Housing allocation and management•Tenants’ rights and types of tenancies•Supported housing problems•Governance•Accountability•Investment, grants and income•Mergers, amalgamations and group structuresPractitioners specialising in this area of the law, housing associations, local government departments, voluntary housing bodies and housing association tenants will find this book indispensable. It will also be useful to students studying housing law and those with an interest in urban studies.

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 13, 2018