The Landlords Association in Kent said the scheme could encourage the long-term tenancies which everybody wanted.
From April all new tenancies will be issued for a fixed period of two years.
Minister Chris Robertshaw said tenancies are no longer for life and will depend on "need and circumstance".
The LCO also covers housing-related support, social housing tenancies and the provision of Gypsy and traveller sites.
The Crofting Commission has started to terminate tenancies and says in most cases amicable solutions are being found.
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He stressed that parliament had already removed the requirement that heterosexual partners must be married to inherit tenancies.
Information submitted relates to, for example, housing benefit, rent, pension payments, payments to asylum seekers and council tenancies.
The plans come after the Localism Act 2011 gave councils the power to use flexible fixed term tenancies.
BBC: Hammersmith and Fulham to fix social housing tenancy term
Hammersmith and Fulham Council will limit tenancies to five years, cutting it to two years for 18 to 25-year-olds.
BBC: Hammersmith and Fulham to fix social housing tenancy term
Should both these governments succeed merely in freeing new rentals (leaving old tenancies rent-controlled), the benefits will be huge.
It would also give greater security to families who rent and remove the barriers preventing longer term tenancies, he pledged.
But the government rejects the notion that fixed-term tenancies will break up stable communities and lead to estates being run down.
Councils will be able to offer new social housing tenants shorter, fixed-term tenancies - ending the right to a council house for life.
But vulnerable residents will still get secure tenancies and people working in the area and those in the armed forces will get priority.
BBC: Hammersmith and Fulham to fix social housing tenancy term
In contrast to Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Liberal Democrat-led Sutton Council issued its Tenancy Strategy on Monday, "restating its belief in offering open-ended tenancies".
BBC: Hammersmith and Fulham to fix social housing tenancy term
The council said those with existing tenancies will not be affected.
While existing residents will continue to be guaranteed a home for life, some fear the effects of the new fixed-term tenancies on the neighbourhood around them.
The peak year for council or housing association tenancies was in 1981 when there were 5.6 million socially owned properties in England - most owned by local authorities.
Liberal Democrat councillor Jeremy Hilton said the 2013 party manifesto already promised to review future farm tenancies to ensure that the culling of badgers would not be permitted on county-owned farms.
These are the immediate banning of badger culling on any Gloucestershire County Council land which is not tenanted and working to ban badger culling on tenanted council land as tenancies are renewed.
Council house tenancies are soon set to be measured not in decades but in years - usually a minimum of five years, but possibly as few as two years in rare cases.
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