Consultation on the Tenancy Strategy for Central Bedfordshire Council's Social Housing Tenants
Date Added: 09/12/2021
Our proposed strategy will see an end to the use of five-year fixed term tenancies and offer secure tenancies often referred to as 'lifetime' tenancies.
The key proposal is to end the use of Fixed-Term Tenancies and to offer our general needs tenants a secure tenancy upon successful completion of an introductory period, often referred to as ‘lifetime’ Tenancy Agreement.
A consultation is now underway on proposed changes to the Tenancy Strategy. The changes are a key part of improving our housing management services and, also as a response to the many changes in legislation and good practice affecting social housing that have taken place since the last review eight years ago.
We have listened to previous feedback from our tenants and housing partners and the draft strategy sets out the councils’ proposed changes to give social housing tenants more security, and to aid the Council’s Housing Team and, other housing partners, the ability to better manage social housing stock and have more time to tackle anti-social behaviour and tenancy fraud.
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