coning the puiblic with public money

[David Foot]

The HOUSING CORPORATION now TENANT SERVICES AUTHORITY (TSA)are old and new
names for a powerful quango / regulator of Housing Associations

Any way the regulator for social housing allows some memebers with not the
best reputation to operate in a very dubious way. This was the case of
Crystal Palace Housing Association in 1991 which went about mis-representing
leases to the public in the media and by any means it saw fit. They also
tried to give mortgage business to their associates an independant company
for whatever "reason". This landlord would describe their leases as a far
superior product to what they really were, as the first year of the leases
was running out at the time, property values were falling and they had
nearly all the properties on their books. Any way the Ombudsman when shown
all the evidence explained that he saw some evidence of mal administration.
Unfortunately the police were not called in to investigate this mal
administration.

The Housing Corporation's (now TSA) member I am referring to has had many
names and has a new name now: AmicusHorizon Ltd. and has gone through
Crystal Palace Housing Association, South London Family Housing Association,
SLFHA Ltd, Horizon Housing Group, obviously they are not proud of their
brand .. nothing of value to keep there..

The question for such a landlord is did they read the lease? The
mis-representing sale documentation and the sales contract? What advice did
their solicitors give them? The Housing Corporation (Now TSA) says the way
their member operated was not against their regulations and guidelines. Yet
when this was shown to the Ombudsman the same found some evidence of mal
administration!! Fantastic regulator the Housing Corporation (now TSA)
fantastic guidelines consistent with maladministration. It also appears that
the Regulator would have wanted us to arrange the pension endowment
mortgages with the associates of the landlord and go with such an
organisation as our legal representatives!

. Should public bodies be allowed to compete with the private sector in this
unfair way protected even from Parliament by a Quango as they criticize the
private sector which most likely was a ton more honest than them in this
particular case?

. Should mis-representing leases not be a crime? Abusing the public who have
less experience and technical knowledge.

. Should public bodies be able to use money from our taxes to trick the
public?

Thank you for your attention and if you think that you may be able to
recommend a solution please write to me at adria...@hotmail.com quoting
CPHA so that I know it is not junk mail.

Kind regards
David Foot