They might as well buy the apartment and stay in the building and have a totally secure tenancy.

Rent caps and secure tenancies have to be the answer here.

One power is that secure tenancies can be 'demoted' by order of a County Court, which in theory at least, makes eviction much easier.

Following consolidation, the current statutory provisions relating to housing association tenancies are, for secure tenancies (general and rents):

At present council tenants have secure tenancy for life.

Housing association tenants have secure tenancy for life after a probationary year.

Now some people may consider delegitimsation as 'reform' (see end of right to benefits and secure tenancies for example) as 'reform' but I call that regression.

Council houses were built and operated by local councils to supply uncrowded, well-built homes on secure tenancies at reasonable rents to primarily working-class people.

Copyhold for Lives is therefore regarded as a less secure tenancy than Copyhold for Inheritance.

By briefing that he is ending the secure tenancy in social housing, reducing the tenancy to an insecure two years, Shapps has given Hughes a big political headache.