In recent years, about a third of BME housing associations have disappeared, merging with other associations, shutting down or being swallowed by larger mainstream organisations.
Blatter is popular in Africa, Fifa's biggest voting bloc, for bringing its first World Cup in 2010 and using Fifa cash to fund hundreds of facilities for national associations across the continent.
Prince Ali – who has the support of most European associations – reportedly believes that voters could switch sides and get behind him in a second round, once they see that Blatter is not set to win by a landslide.
In the good old days, councils and housing associations built social rented housing – often called council housing.
If fewer homes were built by the private sector, housing associations and local authorities combined, the government would step in.
Instead its halls are managed by housing associations.
Pritchard, by his own reckoning, was too young for the Britpop moment, which "had all curdled" by the time he reached his teens, but he was certainly aware of the label and with all its associations, "the lads' mags and beers that came along with it".
Housing associations have opposed previous versions of these proposals and the requirement that councils sell their most-expensive properties will also be resisted by some local authorities angry that mixed-tenancy council housing is being turned into estates for the poor.
Blatter is said, rather, to have been wounded by the worldwide media ridicule and criticism, including in his comfortable Zurich home turf, by the heated contempt from European football associations and the rumblings of sponsors concerned, as ever, with the impact on their own brands.
Hilton blames housing associations for allowing regeneration disputes to flourish.
The National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations in England, is warning that up to a million people in social housing will be at risk of falling into debt when the "universal credit" is rolled out next year.
