29 July, 2021
28 July, 2021
MHCLG evaluation of ongoing pilots also highlights challenges from limited housing supply and recruitment difficulties
28 July, 2021
2020/2021 annual review highlights ‘widening cracks’ in local authority systems for handling complaints
27 July, 2021
Housing pilot for vulnerable rough sleepers will create 140 bed spaces and support up to 1,100 people at risk of sleeping rough
27 July, 2021
Estimating that additional funding of £82 million a year is required, Kerslake Commission says this is a 'small price to pay' to maintain and build on advances that were made, and avoid a post-pandemic surge in rough sleeping
22 July, 2021
22 July, 2021
20 July, 2021 Open access
Update provides for 'interim period' relating to Covid-19 to remain in force to 30 November 2021
20 July, 2021 Open access
Eddie Hughes reiterates MHCLG's assurance that the work of the initiative is ongoing, and that funding is continuing to support people who are in emergency accommodation
20 July, 2021
All-Party Parliamentary Group urges government to continue funding of pilots beyond 2022 and to commit to national roll-out of scheme in furtherance of pledge to end rough sleeping by 2024.
19 July, 2021
Change to notice of eviction rules among range of amendments in new statutory instrument
19 July, 2021
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee calls for a revaluation of properties and an introduction of additional council tax bands
14 July, 2021
New report from Runnymede Trust warns that right to rent policy and other government 'hostile environment' policies, combined with ‘institutional practices and society’s customs’, are fueling systemic racism in England
8 July, 2021
Findings include that 7 per cent of private rented and 9 per cent of social rented households were overcrowded, while 8 per cent of private renters and 23 per cent of social renters had been in rent arrears at some point in the previous year
6 July, 2021
6 July, 2021
Provision included in the Building Safety Bill to remove the ‘democratic filter’ that currently requires complainants to use an MP or tenant panel to bring a complaint to the Ombudsman
6 July, 2021
Communities Minister outlines that reforms will have the needs of tenants at their heart and include the extension of notice to quit periods and restriction of rent increases
5 July, 2021
Under provisions in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, domestic abuse will be a 'standalone reason' to qualify as having a priority need
5 July, 2021
New analysis of statutory homelessness data also shows a similar increase in spending on B&Bs, which councils accept are the 'last resort' of temporary accommodation
