Essential Housing Management Law
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
This course provides an overview of the law and current practice affecting the management of local authority and registered social landlord tenancies. It explores landlord duties and obligations with regard to assured and secure tenancies; good practice and legal issues towards starter, introductory and demoted tenants; management of tenancies upon relationship breakdown; and proposed changes to tenancy law.
Course contains
- The nature of tenancies and implications for housing management and housing policy
- Management of assured and secure tenancies
- The use of starter, introductory and demoted tenancies
- Housing consequences of relationship breakdown
- Making changes to tenancy agreements
- Ending joint tenancies in the light of McCann v UK
- Succession and assignment
- Managing the surrender of tenancies
- Proposed changes to tenancy law on assignment, mutual exchange, succession, tolerated trespass, etc.
Suitable for
Frontline housing staff and housing managers; staff responsible for developing housing management policies; advisers and support workers.
