Members only

You will learn:

• What a ‘licence’ is and who should really have a tenancy
• Who should get what kind of agreement when first occupying
• The need for accurate and clear written and verbal agreements with occupiers
• About fixed-term/flexible and affordable rent tenancies
• About introductory/starter/assured shorthold/demoted tenancies; how and why reviews are essential
• How such tenancies default or convert into lifetime secure or assured tenancies
• The different rights and responsibilities that attach to different kinds of tenancy
• About common tenancy management issues – assignment, succession, abandonment
• How to properly end different kinds of tenancy or licence.

Everyone involved in creating, managing or ending different kinds of tenancy or licence, including lettings, sign-up staff, tenancy management and enforcement, arrears staff, supported housing teams and tenancy sustainment staff.

Richard Paris has an MA from Queens’ College, Cambridge and a post-graduate Diploma in Housing from LSE. From 1991-93 he was senior research officer at LSE Housing, and has worked for short-life and supported housing agencies, mainstream housing associations and local authorities. He is a freelance housing law specialist with 20 years’ training and development experience undertaking educational training, consultancy, policy and procedure health checks. He specialises in housing law updates, dealing with anti-social behaviour effectively, preventing and controlling rent arrears, do-it-yourself possession proceedings, the law in supported housing and the law on disrepair and best practice.