The Tories are quietly banning a scheme which offers poor
residents a council house for life. Lifelong secure tenancies - which meant tenants could
keep council homes until they died and hand them on to their children - will be
phased out in the Housing and Planning Bill. Instead councils will only be
allowed to offer secure tenancies of two to five years and 'review' the
tenant's circumstances before deciding whether to kick them out. When children
or other relatives apart from a spouse inherit a tenant's home, the tenancy
will be capped at five years - after which it could be handed on to someone
else. Labour's shadow housing minister John Healey blasted the move. Read more
on the Daily Mirror website.
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