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<p>The previous Coalition Government consulted on proposals to create a new local
authority flexible tenancy with a minimum fixed term of two years in November 2010
– in ‘Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing’. The flexible tenancy was
introduced by the Localism Act 2011.</p><p>In the Summer Budget 2015, the Government
announced the intention to review the use of lifetime tenancies in social housing
to limit their use and ensure that households are offered tenancies that match their
needs and make best use of the social housing stock.</p><p>Since then DCLG officials
have engaged with local authority landlords, through a series of meetings and regionally
based focus groups, in developing proposals to introduce a new fixed-term tenancy
of between 2 and 5 years.</p>
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