The Housing Revenue Account (HRA) is a local authority account for the running of council-owned housing stock and closely related services or facilities that benefit council tenants. It is a ring-fenced account held within a local authority’s General Fund. Any local authority that has more than 200 homes must have…

A Decent Homes Standard review is being conducted by the government in two parts. Part 1 runs (which seeks to understand the case for change of the Standard’s criteria) from Spring to Autumn 2021. If the case is made, part 2 will run from Autumn 2021 to Spring 2022 to…

Tenants and resident’s associations are the foundation of the borough and landlord-wide federations and organisations that come together as London Tenants Federation.   Their grass-roots knowledge and experiences feed into LTF’s strategic housing policy work, at the London-wide and national levels. Many of the problems that individual tenants have with their…

Social housing tenants’ groups, homeless organisations, and journalists often pore over the increases or decreases in annually published housing waiting lists to seek evidence of the need for social rented homes and how well need is being addressed or not. In our briefing, we assess to what extent these are…

In October 2016, soon after being elected as Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan published A City for all Londoners – setting out his direction of travel for a draft new London Plan. The draft was published in December 2017.  Consultation followed, including a five-month long public examination chaired…

Read our report on – housing need, targets and delivery in London in 2018/19 and delivery of social rented homes 2005–19 – to find out what’s been delivered in your borough. This report includes the most recently published data on additional…

While 2020 was a very difficult year, with the Covid-19 pandemic, we were still very busy. Read about our work and achievements from January 2020 to January 2021.

On Tuesday 19th January, we launched A positive future for social housing in London: The London Tenants' Manifesto at an online event attended by tenants from 22 London boroughs, along with friends, supporters and London politicians. This is the audio recording made of the event.

A positive future for social housing in London: The London Tenants' Manifesto has been written by social housing tenant representatives to identify proposals for a more sustainable and resilient city: socially, economically and environmentally.

How can tenants influence the decisions of our landlords and of local, regional and national government in respect of housing? Liam Kelly, a volunteer with the London Tenants Federation, gave his answer to that question at the Inside Housing Customer Experience Conference in October. These are the slides from his…