3 December, 2015
3 December, 2015
New guidance from Homeless Link aims to give managers in accommodation-based homelessness services a framework to implement good practice around using naloxone as part of a wider harm reduction approach.
3 December, 2015
New report from Housing LIN Cymru sets out evidence that extra care housing improves the health and wellbeing of residents; benefits local communities by offering employment and freeing up family housing; and reduces demand for health and social care services, and makes recommendations to ensure that extra care housing is a central plank of housing policies and provision for older people in the future.
2 December, 2015
Report from the New Policy Institute recommends that 'revaluation' - which should be carried out locally rather than nationally - also opens up the possibility of changing the structure of the tax, for example the difference between what a bigger place and smaller place pay, the single person discount, and the empty homes premium.
2 December, 2015
1 December, 2015
New statutory instrument provides that 23 November 2015 is the date when the Cod of Practice comes into force.
30 November, 2015
27 November, 2015
New regulations that make further provision about the making of applications by landlords to the private rented housing panel under section 28A of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 and about the deciding of those applications, and additionally about the actions that the panel member is to take under section 28C of that Act.
26 November, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 1194
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement confirms increased funding for initiatives to prevent and reduce homelessness including devolving an increased level of funding to local authorities while ending the current management fee for temporary accommodation and providing £40m for services for victims of domestic abuse (paragraph 1.149).
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces that, in addition to extension of the existing equity loan scheme, a new London scheme will offer buyers with a 5 per cent deposit a loan of up to 40 per cent of the value of a new build home, interest-free for 5 years (paragraph 1.146).
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces that, from 1 April 2016, higher rates will be 3 percentage points above the current stamp duty rate (paragraph 1.146)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces suite of measures including 135,000 Help to Buy shared ownership homes, 10,000 homes that will allow a tenant to save for a deposit while they rent and at least 8,000 specialist homes for older people and people with disabilities (paragraph 1.146)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces funding for home adaptations which is expected to prevent 8,500 people from needing to go into a care home in 2019/2020 (paragraph 1.109)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces new 'social care precept' to give local authorities who are responsible for social care the ability to raise new funding to spend exclusively on adult social care (paragraph 1.107).
24 November, 2015
New scheme requires all private landlords in Wales to register themselves and their properties, and, if a landlord wants to manage the property themselves, they must demonstrate they are ‘fit and proper’ to hold a licence, and then undertake, and pass, approved training, or alternatively appoint a licensed agent to manage the property on their behalf.
23 November, 2015
Guardian reports on measure expected to be announced in Autumn Statement on Wednesday.
19 November, 2015
Guardian reports on research showing that landlords minimising repairs for this year so that they can claim tax allowance after change meaning that only repairs actually carried out can be set against tax.
18 November, 2015
New analysis by the Guardian finds that, while 41 per cent of social tenants are employed, half of the economically inactive renters are over 65, and the remaining renters are full-time carers, or long-term sick or disabled; and additionally that the median social rent property in England is £82 per week, while the 'affordable' rent median is £112.
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