Abstract
Abstract The recent growth of tenant participation in British council housing has been accompanied by widespread acceptance of the importance of tenant training for genuine and effective user involvement in housing decision‐making. This article focuses on the sponsorship of tenant participation and training by the Conservative central government. Official promotion of tenant training is linked to the distinctive models of ‘citizenship’ informing government strategy and its cultural project of creating an ‘enterprise culture’. Government‐financed training for tenant management organisations, focusing on ‘competencies’, is found to be formally consistent with these political principles. But it is concluded that, in practice, this training can have unforeseen outcomes and foster alternative views of ‘citizenship’.
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