Camden's Tenancy Strategy

Overview

Since April 2012, the Council and private registered providers have been able to manage social rented housing, including ‘affordable rent’ homes in different ways. There are choices to make and these need to be made carefully, taking into consideration the aspirations set out in the newly published Camden plan and the housing needs and aspirations of our residents.

In order to assist registered providers in making those choices at a borough level, Section 150 of the Localism Act 2011 requires local authorities to prepare and publish a tenancy strategy, setting out the matters that the registered providers of social housing for its district are to have regard to in formulating policies relating to:

• the kind of tenancies they grant;
• the circumstances in which they will grant a tenancy of a particular kind;
• where they grant tenancies for a fixed term, the lengths of the terms;
• the circumstances in which they will grant a further tenancy on the coming to an end of an existing tenancy.

Why your views matter

This consultation will help formulate the Council's tenancy strategy of which the keys aims are to:

• fulfil the Council’s legal duties as set out in the Localism Act 2011;
• set out clear expectations for registered providers operating in the borough;
• prevent homelessness;
• make the best use of the Council’s housing stock and wider social housing in the borough;
• offer tenancies that are in the interests of the individual households occupying homes;
• create and maintain sustainable and diverse communities.

Before answering our consultation questions, please look carefully at the draft tenancy strategy accessed via the link below. All questions relate to the text contained therein. 

What happens next

The Council will consider all the responses and will publish the final tenancy strategy following the Cabinet meeting on 15 January 2013.