Meet Lola and Omari, tenants on the Godwin & Crowndale TMC Board, and learn how tenants there took control when things were going wrong.

In April 2019 we responded to the Affordable Housing Commission’s draft report, ‘Defining and measuring housing affordability – an alternative approach’.  This is our response to the proposals for a new measure of affordability relating housing costs to household incomes.

Read our report on our 2018 joint conference with the National Federation of TMOs and the London Federation of Housing Co-ops. Presentations and workshops centred around the Government’s Social Housing Green Paper and how to ensure it works for tenants.

Until 2019, there was a very restrictive limit to what councils in the UK could borrow in order to build new social and affordable housing (the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap). To get around this restriction, many councils established partnerships with the private sector, including by establishing separate wholly owned…

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and Section 106 Agreements are both mechanisms used by local councils to require developers of new housing to help finance the infrastructure needed to support their schemes. This briefing explains the difference between the two, and how they work.

Learn about our work and achievements in 2017-18.

In times of struggle, tenants and residents’ associations are pleased to receive support from others. We feel that support that facilitates tenant empowerment is the best kind of support.  This document provides some do’s…

In 2018, the London Assembly Housing Committee embarked on an investigation into tenant involvement in social housing following the tragedy of the fire at Grenfell Tower. This is a submission we made to the committee in June of that year.

After the fire at Grenfell Tower, the London Assembly Housing Committee announced an investigation into the management of social housing and the involvement of tenants. This document is our initial response.

Join us, and let's make social housing the London Mayor's top priority. This document sets out the benefits of becoming an LTF Associate.