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Creating a tenancy strategy suitable for your area

2nd of August 2012

Shelter is recommending that Tenancy Strategies should set out that registered providers should not generally use nonrenewal to deal with complaints of nuisance or antisocial behaviour. Instead, such breaches of tenancy should be dealt with under the normal possession grounds, so that a court can consider the case. Tenancy Strategies should also set out that, where registered providers do consider non-renewal as a result of antisocial behaviour, they should consider community care needs in any assessment of non-renewal. Providers would need to show they had regard to such needs in the event of an Equalities Act or Human Rights Act defence.

Shelter’s report - Creating a tenancy strategy suitable for your area - is designed to assist local politicians, strategy officers and policy officers in preparing their Tenancy Strategies and landlord Tenancy Policies, in the light of the new flexibility available to them as a result of the Localism Act 2011. 

To access the report, a briefing for MPs and supporting evidence, please click here.