The London Tenants Federation has expressed disbelief at tenants’ exclusion from the Deputy Mayor for Housing’s new taskforce for the recovery of London’s housing sector after lockdown.

LTF’s view has always been that intermediate housing, of all types, primarily results in relatively better off households jumping the queue for new affordable housing, leaving behind those most in need, who have been languishing for years on local authority social housing waiting lists.

Trust for London’s Poverty Profile: 2020 was published this week. Among the key findings were: After housing costs, 28% of Londoners are living in poverty 76% of children in poverty in London are in working families – an increase of 8%, or 80,000 children, from five years ago. It…

The UK Housing Review was published this month, and it shatters the myth that social housing is the most subsidised tenure in England.The review found that measures to stimulate homeownership and the private market in England amount to £53bn.

‘Joined-up working’, ‘resilience’ and ‘sustainability’ have been buzzwords in the social housing and social care worlds for the past decade or more. One tenants' federation's response to the Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated these ideals with exception. Here are three things they are doing to help communities in their borough.

The government’s announcement on 18th March of an eviction ban for social and private renters is woefully inadequate. Social and private tenants who stay at home under government advice must be protected not just from eviction but from rent arrears too. Our statement published on 19th March 2020.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is consulting on plans for ‘First Homes’: new homes for sale to first time buyers with £100,000 discounts, targeted at ‘key workers’ such as nurses, police officers and veterans of the armed forces. On the face of it, this is just another scheme targeted at first…

This consultation was announced alongside a number of other measures billed as “the biggest change in building safety for a generation”. But to what extent do the government’s new building safety measures meet tenant demands?

There was good news for residents of a 750-home estate in west London before Christmas, as they defeated a threat of demolition which they had fought for over ten years.

Ahead of the election on 12th December, we pick out some of the key policies for social housing tenants from each of the main parties' manifestos.