Keeping Our Housing Public

In January 2013, the Minister for Social Development, Nelson McCausland, announced a “Social Housing Reform Programme” ... NIPSA has commissioned an academic investigation of this issue by Stewart Smyth. This both analyses the experience in Britain of twenty five years of stock transfers and also sets out a number of alternative policy routes the Minister and the NI Executive government could pursue. These alternatives have the benefit of keeping the Housing Executive in the public sector, which in turn leads to lower rents, greater value for money (for tenants and taxpayers), full political accountability and increased economic activity.