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Among Welsh local authorities, so far only Wrexham has voted against transfer of the housing stock.
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More than 60% of tenants voted, with 59.7% of those against plans to transfer to Highland Housing Association.
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"It's still open that some of the stock could transfer to existing housing associations, but essentially new housing associations are likely to be formed, " Mr Hoodless said.
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And it wants to partly privatise council housing through the mass transfer of estates from local authorities to housing associations.
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On Friday, Mr. Thompson went to the Isaacs Houses, a public-housing development near the transfer station site, surrounded himself with a racially diverse audience and demanded an apology.
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The council's solution is to transfer ownership of all the houses to a single housing association.
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Other authorities have embarked on a process known as stock transfer, where tenants are balloted on moving to a housing association that would be freer to finance the levels of investment required.
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Council leader Mike Storey said the transfer process was the only way to ensure the improvements to housing.
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It also intends to award additional housing points to those affected by the changes and who are seeking a transfer to a smaller property.
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Resettlement compensation is the biggest transfer of wealth from the government to the household sector since the privatization of low-cost public housing a decade ago.
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More important, they make transfer payments through programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and housing vouchers.
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They are both looking to transfer with their companies to Utah and plan on renting their suburban home until the foreclosure sales cool off and the housing market turns around.
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