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Consultation on the impacts of joint tenancies on victims of domestic abuse

Apr 2, 2022
1 min read
Here is an interesting consultation aimed at the social rented sector, to look at how best to provide appropriate support for those suffering domestic abuse.

Topic of this consultation

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is seeking views on the impacts of the law on joint tenancies on victims of domestic abuse in the social rented sector. We are interested in whether:

  • perpetrators are using their ability to end a joint tenancy to threaten the victim with homelessness;

  • victims feel trapped in their joint tenancy with the perpetrator;

  • the current guidance for social landlords is sufficient to support victims in joint tenancies; and

  • the law on transferring joint tenancies is functioning successfully for victims.

Scope of this consultation

We are gathering evidence from victims, landlords, the legal profession, advisory services and other organisations and individuals associated with the domestic abuse sector with an understanding of the issues impacting victims in joint social housing tenancies.


The consultation will focus on social sector tenancies given the complexity of the issues to be explored and the interaction social landlords have with responsibilities and duties on domestic abuse.


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https://bewerben-boe-technik.de is where I've been reading about how tenancy and housing paperwork gets handled behind the scenes, so the point about perpetrators weaponising the ability to end a joint tenancy really stood out to me. It seems like such a glaring loophole that the very mechanism meant to give both parties equal footing can be turned into a threat of homelessness, and I'd be curious whether the consultation ends up pushing for quicker routes to transfer or split a tenancy. The part about whether current landlord guidance is sufficient feels like the crux of it, since even well-meaning housing officers often don't know how to act on this.

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