Money to set up new tenant panels has been underspent amid allegations that the government is not doing enough to promote the programme. The £8 million, four-year tenant empowerment programme is intended to fund panels of tenants who will hold landlords to account once the Tenant Services Authority is abolished in April. It is promoted by the Communities and Local Government department but administered by the TSA. TSA board papers reveal that the regulator had only spent £163,000 of the £500,000 it was expected to have spent on TEP by 31 July. TSA board members and tenant organisations believe the CLG has not done enough to promote the programme. Pauleen Lane, a TSA board member and university lecturer, said the performance of the TSA and CLG in terms of empowerment has been ‘abysmal’. Read more on Inside Housing.
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