Response to the new Government’s Mobility Taskforce

Posted by MHT on June 17, 2010 | No Comments |  Print This Post |  Email This Post

Metropolitan Housing Trust London welcomes the new Government’s focus on tenant mobility and actively provides tenant mobility opportunities for our tenants.

We are members of:

• House Exchange and Home Swapper mutual exchange schemes
• LAWN, where tenants wish to move out of London
• Seaside & Country Homes.

MHT London also:

• operates a transfer waiting list
• offers Choice Based Lettings schemes in partner Local Authorities where these schemes are offered
• are the Common Housing Register Partners in Broxbourne and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
• works with partner Local Authorities where under-occupation incentive schemes are offered
• have our own under-occupation incentive scheme.

As part of MHP, MHT London in 2008 participated in joint research with seven other housing associations to explore the feasibility of establishing a national tenant mobility schemes. The report, entitled Mobility Matters, made a number of practical recommendations to the Government and the housing sector on how such a scheme could work.

Download a copy of the report

Decent Homes update – June 2010