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Tenancy Strategies: A Policy Perspective December 2011 David Pipe Policy & Practice Officer Overview The big picture Tenure reform - What is being introduced and why What do we expect to see? The role of local


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Tenancy Strategies: A Policy Perspective December 2011 David Pipe – Policy & Practice Officer

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Overview

  • The big picture
  • Tenure reform - What

is being introduced and why

  • What do we expect to

see?

  • The role of local

authorities

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The big picture

Tenure reform is one element of a wide range of reforms:

  • Affordable rent
  • Welfare reform
  • Regulation reform
  • Planning reform
  • HRA reform
  • Right To Buy reform
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Tenure reform – Why?

The government feels that:

  • Social housing is a

‘scarce resource’

  • It is not always ‘targeted’

as effectively as it could be

  • It is a question of

‘fairness’

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Tenure reform – Why?

“Do we want to reform tenure to actually enable people to move through housing rather than seeing it as something that you either get – ‘great, I’ve got my council house’ – or you don’t get – ‘bad…’” David Cameron

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Tenure reform – What?

  • End to automatic

assumption of ‘lifetime’ tenancies

  • New flexibilities to offer

fixed term tenancies, usually for 5 years or more

  • But this is permissive,

not prescriptive

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What do we expect to see?

  • A much less homogenous sector, with

homes let on a range of different terms and rents:

‘Lifetime’ tenancies, social rent ‘Lifetime’ tenancies, affordable rent Fixed term tenancies, social rent Fixed term tenancies, affordable rent

  • The challenge for local authorities

is to manage the effect of all of these changes in your area…

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Some useful resources

  • Managing the impact of

housing reforms in your area

  • How to… develop your

tenancy policy

  • The practical implications
  • f tenure reform
  • www.cih.org
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Any questions

David Pipe – Policy and Practice Officer David.pipe@cih.org