DLUHC opens consultation on social housing tenants’ rights to access information about their homes

Baroness Scott

Government proposing to allow tenants to more easily access information about the management of their homes ‘to hold their landlords to account’

The government has launched a consultation on the rights of social housing tenants to request information from their landlords on the management of their homes.

The consultation, which the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) opened yesterday, will be used to develop rules regarding access to information for social housing tenants.

For the first time, the rules will permit social housing tenants or their representatives, such as lawyers, to request information about the management of their homes at no cost.

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