ABSTRACT
The subject of this book is the relationship between council tenants, housing managers and councillors. In particular, the focus is on the growing use of arrangements for tenants to participate in the management of the houses in which they live and the extent to which this empowers them. However, these arrangements cannot be viewed in isolation from the general situation of council housing. Reductions in the scale of council housing and changes in the way it is managed will, to a greater or lesser extent, influence the relationship between the parties involved in it. Councillors and housing managers who wish to retain council housing may feel more ready to listen to the demands of tenants, or they may be more likely to seek to build alliances with council tenants.
