Commentary Part 7: Housing Chapter 2: Social Housing: Tenure Reform Sections 150 to 153: Tenancy strategies
374.Section 150 places a new duty on every local housing authority to publish a tenancy strategy setting out, in high-level terms, the matters to which all registered providers of social housing should have regard in framing their own tenancy policies.
375.Section 151 sets out the procedure an authority must follow when preparing its strategy or making a modification to it that involves a major change of policy, and in particular its obligation to consult private registered providers on a draft of the strategy.
376.Section 152 provides that the Secretary of State may direct the social housing regulator to set a standard on tenure. Section 153 requires that a local housing authority, when formulating its homelessness strategy, must have regard to its current allocations scheme, tenancy strategy and, where the authority is a London borough council, the London housing strategy.