Housing charities at risk, regulator warns

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 12 February 2008

New housing legislation could force housing associations that are registered charities to lose their charitable status, the Charity Commission has warned.

In a briefing sent out to MPs who are involved in the scrutiny of the Housing and Regeneration Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, the commission said that sections of the bill threatened the independence of charitable housing associations. The regulator warned that measures in the bill could have...

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