Former Labour housing minister Keith Hill has been appointed to lead a new residents’ housing commission in Hammersmith & Fulham.
The commission will work with council house tenants and leaseholders to explore how they can be given more control and safeguards over their homes, rents and service charges.
Its formation follows a rising number of redevelopments in the borough, some of which have required council housing to be relocated.
Hill was made housing minister in 2008 and spearheaded the Decent Homes Programme.
He now chairs the regulatory panel for the Association of Residential Managing Agents.
The commission will look at how to protect residents’ council homes against unwanted demolition and development, and improve the quality of council housing.
Hammersmith & Fulham’s cabinet member for housing, Lisa Homan, said: “We are committed to devolving more control to residents and to do so in a way that ensures that tenants and leaseholders are fully involved in an accountable and transparent process.”
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