TPAS Warns Against Right to Buy and Social Rent Cut

The Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) has said many of its tenant members are opposed to extending Right to Buy to housing associations and the proposed 1% cut in social rents. In its submission to the CLG Committee’s inquiry into the future of housing associations, TPAS included views from around 140 tenants who ‘engage with their landlords’ and around 80 association employees. The submission said: “They believe that the rent reductions, welfare reforms and Right to Buy will undermine social housing provision. Many feel this is an explicit intention, and would like clarification of the government’s vision for social housing.” Read the full submission on the TPAS website.