Government Accused of Concealing Tenant Revolt over Two-Year Tenancies

Campaign group Defend Council Housing (DCH) has accused the Government of trying to "sweep under the carpet" the angry response from tenants at threats to secure tenancies and genuinely affordable rents. It claims the Government’s summary of responses to its consultation Local Decisions: a fairer future for social housing is extremely misleading, with tenant and other organisations being ignored. The Government consultation summary says: “A large majority of respondents expressed the view that two years would rarely or never be enough for a general needs social tenancy." And two-thirds of local authorities said there was not enough private sector accommodation available for the homeless." However, DCH has said that the document ignores a large number of organisations who have objected in the "strongest possible terms to proposed fixed-term tenancies". Read more on 24dash.