Indeed he will. Its now becoming increasingly clear why the national tenant voice was so abitrarily abandoned. There really isn't any point funding and recognising a body for tenants if they simply argue against what you really want to do.
There's lots of misconceptions here as well - it's not just council homes but three groups of social housing tenants: 'traditional' council tenants, tenants who live in homes owned by councils but managed by ALMOs and housing association tenants. The plans on tenancies seem not to cover existing tenants who apparently 'enjoy' tenancies for life but will cover them being turfed out of their homes if they dare to underoccupy. And new tenants will be allowed, feudal style, a time limited tenancy.
There is a shortage of affordable housing including social housing. Five million on the waiting list means there is a bigger problem than currently explained. There are issues about the best package of support for young tenants that may not involve 'tenancies for life but a wider series of measures to help them.The energy and effort would be better placed on resolving these issues, ones that does appear to be close to Grant Shapps, than penalising existing and future tenants. Of course if the Government persists it does have the power under the Housing and Regeneration Act to issue directions on both tenancies and underoccupancy. If only it had a regulator to enforce it.......
