'David Cameron announces plan to end lifetime council tenanciesCouncil homes for life to be replaced by tenancies lasting as little as five years based on need and income.' [Guardian.]
This is a toughie but unless you have about some twelve million dwellings available as social housing - which we do not have and never will - it is inevitable.
At one time in some cities they were family heirlooms!
There is no justifiable reason for ever giving permanent tenancies automatically although there are clearly cases where this would be reasonable.
Just a bit suspicious however, that these ideas are perhaps to make room for newly arrived immigrants who will have to take precedence over the local populations. If immigration is not controlled - and it isn't being ...
