Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to make it easier for social housing tenants to form housing co-operatives.

We encourage local authorities to work closely with their communities to look at the range of options open to them to include forming community led groups, such as housing Co-Operatives. Council tenants have the Right to Manage, which enables them to set up a Tenant Management Organisation (including a management co-operative) to manage the homes in their area, with a management allowance from the Council. Housing Co-Operatives are a significant part of the community-led housing sector which we are supporting to grow through a new £60 million per annum fund, announced at Budget 2016.