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28 March, 2024

Shared ownership model is ‘drastically failing’ as buyers face rising rents, uncapped service charges, and disproportionate exposure to repair and maintenance costs

MPs call for government to take urgent and significant action to reform how schemes currently operate so they can deliver an affordable route to home ownership

27 March, 2024

Scottish Government introduces Bill to prevent homelessness and strengthen tenants’ rights

Housing (Scotland) Bill includes measures requiring social landlords and public bodies to 'ask and act' to prevent homelessness and introduction of long-term private sector rent controls

26 March, 2024

Local authority failed to make effective decision to end duty to provide accommodation and so that duty continued

Bano, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2024] EWHC 654 (Admin)

26 March, 2024

Housing Ombudsman launches consultation for social landlords on its approach to developing new guidance on Good Practice in undertaking housing activities

Ombudsman confirms that proposed approach to good practice is to encourage all landlords to self-assess at the point they become aware of an issue rather than waiting for a complaint or escalation

25 March, 2024

22 March, 2024

Lords Select Committee criticises government for ‘sitting on its hands’, having failed to establish a property agent regulator on the recommendation of independent working group four years ago

Letter to Secretary of State warns that the delay is impacting tenants, leaseholders and others by exposing them to continued malpractice

22 March, 2024

21 March, 2024

Temporary modification of method used by rent officers or First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to determine rent increases in Scotland following expiry of emergency rent control measures

New statutory instruments amend existing processes to ensure that rent increases can be limited to a maximum of 12 per cent for a one-year period after expiry of rent cap provisions on 31 March 2024

21 March, 2024

Average Band D council tax bills in England to increase by just over 5 per cent in 2024/2025

New DLUHC figures also confirm that all local authorities with social care responsibilities have opted to use some or all of the social care precept flexibilities to increase bills by up to 2 per cent

20 March, 2024

19 March, 2024

19 March, 2024

18 March, 2024

Welsh homelessness and housing organisations urge members of the Senedd to challenge UK Government’s plans to criminalise rough sleeping

Letter to Senedd Committee highlights that 'dehumanising' measures are at odds with the Welsh Government's own Ending Homelessness Action Plan

15 March, 2024

Government urged to extend move-on period for people granted refugee status from 28 to 56 days

Leading housing and refugee support organisations highlight increase of almost 1,000 per cent in number of people sleeping rough who had left asylum support in previous 85 days

14 March, 2024

Blaming high demand for a more than ten-week delay in drawing up a homeless person’s Personalised Housing Plan is ‘not good enough’ and creates real injustice

Ombudsman also finds Kensington and Chelsea Council to have caused injustice by failing to account for the impact of domestic abuse on the homeless person because it did not consider the alleged perpetrator as a ‘relative’

14 March, 2024

Extending temporary easement of suitability obligations on England’s local authorities to help manage increased homelessness pressures due to humanitarian crises and broader migration pressures

New statutory instrument also expires a second temporary easement relating to the six-week maximum period that local authorities can accommodate a person with family commitments in B&B accommodation

13 March, 2024

Debt advice organisations call for stronger protection for tenants who fall into rent arrears than those currently included in Renters (Reform) Bill

Joint letter to DLUHC Secretary of State calls for new Tenancy Support Programme instead of mandatory eviction ground so that evictions on the grounds of arrears would only ever happen as a last resort

13 March, 2024

Welsh Government confirms that 18 local authorities will be applying higher discretionary council tax premiums on second homes and long-term empty properties from April 2024

Minister adds that a number of councils have also indicated they will increase the percentage charged year on year, over a three-year period, particularly for long-term empty properties