Government Axes National Tenant Body

The body set up to give social housing tenants a bigger say on the national stage is to be scrapped as part of the government’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’. Housing minister Grant Shapps met with National Tenant Voice chiefs and told them the body, which was set up by the previous government, would no longer receive government funding. Government officials claimed that the NTV was ‘too distant’ and did not represent value for money. Read all the details on the Inside Housing website.