1. Renting Homes: Interim Progress Report
Presentation to HALPA Conference

2. Law Commission consultation
2 consultation papers
status and security
co-occupation transfer and succession
Consultation periods over
Analysis
Policy formulation

3. Status and security: responses
Overwhelming support
The consumer approach
the need for terms to be fair
rights and responsibilities on landlords and tenants
The central place for the contract

4. Issues The (in)efficiency of the courts ADR Lack of trust
a specialist tribunal?
ADR
Lack of trust
need to encourage good practice

5. Reactions: CP 162 Anti-social behaviour Structured discretion
Sanctions for failure to comply with written document
Retaliatory evictions
6 months’ moratorium
Court proceedings: possession warrant hearings
Rent Act tenancies

6. Reactions: CP 168 Very preliminary “The devil in the detail”
RSL response
Housing Corporation and CIH

7. The changing context Pressure group
Shelter Commission on the PRS
Local authority strategic housing responsibilities
Need for incentives for good practice