Moving on with homes

Published: 20 August, 2010

• WE can go on into the semantics of assured and secure tenancies but the bottom line is that unless a tenant does something grotesquely wrong they are protected whatever tenancy signed up to (Protect us from Rachman and rats, Letters August 13).  

What I think the negative aspect of social housing is that they are individual entities and do not have any joined up ability to release the fluidity of tenants to move between all sectors without some awful rigmarole in trying to downsize, upsize or transfer out of, or for any other reason move to, another provider.  

This, of course, contradicts the Prime Minister’s aim to get social housing freed up.

I have been with all three social housing providers and I can assure you that the best by a quantum leap is council housing. 

But this shows how backwards that associations and trusts are. They need not be, however, if they were to drive up standards and also encourage moving between providers. 

JAMES QUINN
Westbourne Park Road, W2