Birmingham and Sheffield residents appear to have used their votes last week to signal dissatisfaction with stock transfer.
In Birmingham, former cabinet member for housing Dennis Minnis lost his marginal Edgbaston ward by just 173 votes.

He was the driving force behind Birmingham’s failed transfer.

Birmingham Defend Council Housing chair Frank Chance said: “Minnis treated the tenants of Birmingham with arrogance and contempt and he got what he deserved.

“But it’s cleared the decks and made room for some new thinking.”

And in Sheffield the balance of power shifted from the Liberal Democrats to Labour.

Unison linked the result to proposed stock transfer and the outsourcing of housing benefit administration that had led to “huge backlogs”.

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Housing Today