The government of New South Wales in Australia introduced fixed-term tenancies in 2006, the minimum duration varies between 2 and 10 years, depending on the applicant’s circumstances. Meanwhile the United Kingdom has reduced housing benefits for households who occupy homes that are large compared to the number of occupants (the so called “bedroom tax”), which might also lead some social tenants to leave the sector. The de facto targeting of social rental housing - by which low-income households are already the majority of social tenants even in countries where eligibility is not or only loosely targeted - might mean that there is limited scope for encouraging better-off tenants to move to other forms of tenure.