The assembly government have been trying to get a housing LCO passed for nearly three years.
The LCO also covers housing-related support, social housing tenancies and the provision of Gypsy and traveller sites.
Royal approval for the LCO is likely to be received in summer 2009.
The proposed legislative competence order (LCO) has been agreed by UK cabinet members.
Once the LCO has been laid it will then be subject to scrutiny by both the Welsh Assembly and Westminster.
Jocelyn Davies was making a statement to the assembly on the Housing Legislative Competence Order (LCO) on 23 June 2010.
The minister expressed her deep disappointment that the UK government's agreement to take forward the LCO was now being watered down.
The LCO is a request for further powers so that the Asseembly can create Welsh laws in relation to school governance.
However, legislative ability would only be granted in specific fields and had to be requested from Westminster through a Legislative Competence Order (LCO).
She said that the Wales Office has refused to pass the housing LCO through Parliament unless controversial powers over the right to buy council houses are amended.
Carwyn Jones said that, if the LCO was passed, the Assembly would aim to build on the former Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills Committee's review of special educational needs.
The Legislative Competence Order (LCO), which would transfer the powers, was approved by Whitehall departments, a committee of AMs and publicly endorsed by assembly government Deputy ousing minister Jocelyn Davies.
The Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black said that he believed that the UK Government's decision to reject the housing LCO in its current form was a breach of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.
The LCO would give the assembly the powers to restrict or abolish the rights of tenants to buy their council homes, but the Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration has said that these should not be devolved in full.
Giving evidence to the committee scrutinising the LCO on 3 December 2009, Rex Phillips from the NASUWT said that they were concerned the new powers could, at best, undermine the local authority control of schools in Wales and, at worst, lead to the privatisation of services to schools.
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