Legal background Social housing rents
The legislation relating to existing housing and rent policy for private registered providers and local authorities, including changes to end housing subsidy and enable self-financing of local housing authorities, is set out in a combination of primary and subordinate legislation. The current provisions are:
Housing Act 1985;
Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
Housing and Regeneration Act 2008;
Localism Act 2011;
secondary legislation made under the above Acts.