The National Tenant Voice

The National Tenant Voice (NTV) is a new organisation whose main purpose is to give social housing tenants in England a voice so that they might better influence national policies and practices that affect their lives.

The new organisation has been developed following the recommendation from the Cave review of social housing regulation 'Every Tenant Matters' that the government set up a national tenant voice to sit alongside the regulator of social housing (TSA - Tenant Services Authority).

The development of the NTV comes at a time of considerable change within the social housing sector – most notably following the development of the Tenant Services Authority and its central tenant empowerment standard.  The NTV will play a major role in ensuring that the TSA is held to account by tenants for the development and implementation of their standards.

The NTV aims to give tenants influence by:
Collective advocacy -enabling and supporting tenants to input into national policy and practice researching tenants views and experiences supporting a representative tenants structure at national and regional/sub regional level (this may include financial support) communicating effectively with a wide range of tenants and tenants organisations.