What impact the proposed transfer of housing stock will have on the powers of local councillors to intervene on housing matters.

Transfers to community ownership will enable councils and councillors to develop a more strategic role in the provision of housing in their area. To support this process, we have proposed that Scottish Homes' development funding role should transfer to the council following a whole stock transfer. Councils will continue to have statutory responsibility for the homeless in their area.Currently, a local councillor may make representations on housing matters to the council on behalf of a constituent who is a council tenant. Transfer need not prevent a councillor from making such representations to the new community landlord on the constituent's behalf. In the case of the Glasgow transfer, there will be councillors on the management boards of the Glasgow Housing Association and the Area Housing Partnerships.