BARNSLEY FEDERATION OF TENANTS AND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONS
“Working together
to promote shared
values
in the
interest of all Barnsley Tenants and Residents”
Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing consultation
The Department for Communities and Local Government have now published a summary of responses to the consultation 'Local decisions: next steps towards a fairer future for social housing'. This consultation paper was first published on 22nd November 2010. The document sets out the Government's plans for radical reform to the social housing system. It includes changes in tenure; the management of waiting lists and the homelessness duty.It also covers the introduction of a new ‘affordable rent’ tenancy and changes to the system of council housing finance. It includes measures to improve mobility, tackle overcrowding and under-occupation.
Barnsley Federation met in December and discussed four questions that we feel
tenants should answer.
Click here to see our
respones to these questions.
South Yorkshire Tenants and Residents Network held a workshop in January to provide a joint South Yorkshire tenants response to the government consultation paper on the future of social housing. Click here to see the response from the network which is an informal alliance of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Federations of Tenants and Residents and tenants of Sheffield.