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Taking responsibility & preparing tenants for social/private tenancies

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06/09/2011 11:50 am

Tim Carr

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Having worked across a sub-regional housing partnership developing enhanced housing options and interventions/preventions aimed at improving tenants sustainability, I wondered what opinions are around introducing "tenants training initiaitves"?

Based on my experience there are now many partnerships centred around support and housing incuding shared housing registers etc and plethora of support associations working with young and vulnerable people. There are good examples of preparing new tenants from individual organisations and some not so good. But the issues remain the same.

What are your opinions on a consistent new tenants training approach?

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06/09/2011 3:31 pm

People may benefit from tenant training - understanding the responsibilities of the tenancy, tenancy rights etc, but these are best done at sign up.

Outside of that I'm all for the concept of providing opportunites for those who would otherwise be excluded, are vulnerable, or in any way have options restricted. These people are not tenure specific, although I accept the ghettoisation of successive governments may have concentrated such people into particular geographic areas.

My comment therefore is that such initiatives must be mainstream, although housing bodies may wish to signpost.

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