Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:00 pm
Adam Sampson: We are not at this stage, no. Security of tenure is a profoundly interesting issue. At the moment, one matter that really concerns us is the disjunction between the rights of similar groups of people trying to secure social housing. If you manage to get through the homelessness application route, for example, and be accepted as homeless, if you are not fobbed off at an earlier stage, you will end up having lifetime security of tenure and regulated rents. If you do not manage to negotiate those hurdles, you end up in the private rented sector with unregulated rents and only six months’ security of tenure.
It seems to us that the two sectors need to be brought closer together. How to do that, whether through rent regulation and legal extensions to security of tenure in the private rented sector or through a package of incentives and managing the market, is precisely the sort of stuff that the review of the private rented sector needs to determine.