HeraldLooks like the Lovely GHA is about to be disintegrated.
Writing might be on the wall for GHA
The Scottish Government and Labour-run Glasgow City Council are pulling ranks in a pincer movement to squeeze the country's largest social landlord out of £1bn of housing development, and dilute any power and ambitions the agency has.
In an attempt to effectively dismantle the very body it created six years ago with the £800m-plus backing of the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, the council has secured the support of its Nationalist rivals in government to reduce the role and responsibilities of Glasgow Housing Association.
The Herald can reveal that last night city council leader Steven Purcell and Glasgow's SNP group leader James Dornan met new housing minister Alex Neil to discuss a document that will be presented to GHA, addressing what one source called the landlord's "dysfunctionality".
Sources close to both Mr Purcell and Mr Neil have said that if the government accepts what the council is proposing, it would "kill off the GHA as we know it".
The meeting was scheduled to also include representatives of GHA and civil servants but was scaled down to just the politicians at the last minute.
The joint approach comes amid a major debacle over the multimillion-pound contract to run GHA's maintenance of tens of thousands of homes, with the plans in disarray just days before a "repairs revolution" was to commence.