The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002
This Order confers on local housing authorities in England and Wales a new power to improve living conditions in their area (article 3). The new power enables an authority to provide assistance to any person for—the acquisition of living accommodation, where the authority wish to purchase a person’s home or as an alternative to adapting, improving or repairing it;the adaptation or improvement of living accommodation (including by alteration, conversion or enlargement, and by the installation of things or injection of substances);the repair of living accommodation;the demolition of buildings comprising or including living accommodation;the construction of replacement living accommodation to replace living accommodation that has been demolished.