The government will extend the right to buy to tenants offered new fixed-term tenancies. As part of its reforms to social housing, which include scrapping lifelong tenancies as the standard offer to tenants, the CLG said it was important to ‘strengthen, rather than diminish, the opportunities for people to achieve independence and to become homeowners if they wish to do so’. The consultation paper, “Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing”, also reveals plans to scale back tenants’ succession rights to only their spouse or partner. Landlords will have the option to add further succession rights to other family members such as children or resident carers. The rule that a tenancy will pass to anyone who has lived in a social tenant’s home for more than twelve months at the time of their death will remain. Grant Shapps said: ‘On succession rights, my intention is that all new secure and flexible tenancies will include a right to one succession for spouses and partners, but I will provide all social landlords with the flexibility to grant whatever additional succession rights they choose. No changes will be made to the succession rights of existing tenants.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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