Election Rules Silence NTV

Four national tenants’ organisations are planning to create an independent committee that will be more outspoken than the National Tenant Voice. The new national tenant scrutiny committee is being planned by TAROE, the Confederation of Co-operative Housing, the National Federation of Tenants’ Management Organisations and TPAS - all of which helped set up the NTV, which was created to enable tenants to ‘better influence national policies’. But it will play no role at all in lobbying politicians during the election campaign because it is a non-departmental public body. The new group is hoping to hold the first scrutiny committee’s public hearing in June and call managers from the TSA to give evidence. Read the full story on Inside Housing.