The Housing Corporation was the

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that funded new affordable housing and regulated

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s in

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. It was established by the Housing Act 1964. On 1 December 2008, its functions were transferred to two new organisations, the Homes and Communities Agency and the Tenant Services Authority. The Corporation was formally dissolved on 1 April 2009. The last Chairman of the Housing Corporation was Peter Dixon, and his deputy was Shaukat Moledina.

Successor bodies

On 17 January 2007,

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announced proposals to bring together the investment functions of the Housing Corporation,

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and parts of the Department for

Communities and Local Government The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for housing, communities, and local government in England. It was established in May 2006 ...

to form a new unified housing and regeneration agency. In the following months, Professor Martin Cave, Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at

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, led the most comprehensive review of English housing regulation for 30 years. Reporting in June, the Cave Review recommended that a new

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be set up, separating the regulation and investment responsibilities of the Housing Corporation. On 15 October 2007,

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announced that the Government accepted the recommendation of the Cave Review to transfer the Corporation's regulatory powers to an independent body. Initially this was to be named the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords, but its name was subsequently changed to the Tenant Services Authority. The new investment body was initially announced as "Communities England", later renamed as the Homes and Communities Agency. The legislative framework for both new bodies is contained in the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, which gained

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on 22 July 2008. They became operational on 1 December 2008.

Energy efficiency

As the Corporation required the housing associations it funded to achieve

EcoHomes EcoHomes was an environmental rating scheme for homes in the United Kingdom. It was the domestic version of the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method BREEAM, which could also be applied to a variety of non-residen ...

standards, the Housing Corporation was indirectly responsible for building the greatest number of environmentally friendly homes in the UK. Eco-performance standards are to be raised further for grants provided in 2008–2010, when compliance exceeding Level 3 of the new

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will be required.Housing Corporation to be greener
, ''Green Building'' magazine, 14 December 2006

References

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External links

Archived Housing Corporation website
Housing in England Public housing in England Defunct non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government 1964 establishments in England 2008 disestablishments in England Housing organisations based in London Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Successor bodies

Energy efficiency

See also

References

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