16 July, 2015
16 July, 2015
Following a 45 per cent reduction in social housing available since the Right to Buy policy was introduced, the maximum discount on properties in Wales is now £8,000 reduced from £16,000.
9 July, 2015
Clauses 19 and 20 of new Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015/2016 provide, subject to exceptions, for registered providers of social housing to have to 'secure that the amount of rent payable in a relevant year by a tenant of their social housing in England is 1 per cent less than the amount that was payable by the tenant in the preceding 12 months'
9 July, 2015
New DCLG statistics include that a total of 220,800 cases of homelessness prevention or relief are estimated to have taken place outside the statutory homelessness framework in England - a fall of 3 per cent on last year - and that, of these cases, 205,100 (93 per cent) were preventions and 15,700 (7 per cent) were cases of relief.
9 July, 2015
New report from Homeless Link looks at how partnership between health and homelessness sectors could be used to prevent homelessness and benefit health and wellbeing.
8 July, 2015
Government announces in summer Budget that social housing tenants with household incomes of £40,000 and above in London, and £30,000 and above in the rest of England, will be required to pay a market or near market rent for their accommodation (paragraph 1.154).
8 July, 2015
8 July, 2015
Announcement in summer Budget means housing associations and local authorities will be required to 'deliver efficiency savings, making better use of the £13bn annual subsidy they receive from the taxpayer' (paragraph 1.140).
8 July, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 711
8 July, 2015
New information from the Valuation Office Agency
6 July, 2015
Politics Home reports that, writing in the Sun on Sunday, Mr Osborne said - 'Those earning £40,000 a year in London and £30,000 a year in other parts of the country will have to pay the market rent or at least something close to it, if they want to stay in their homes. It’s a simple matter of fairness.'
6 July, 2015
BBC reports on joint article in Times by George Osborne and David Cameron ahead of Wednesday's Budget.
6 July, 2015
Guardian reports on research carried out by University of Cambridge for Shelter including that 31 per cent of landlords surveyed said they would sell all or some of their properties immediately if rents were frozen, meaning less choice for those in the private rented sector.
2 July, 2015
New research that aims to understand more about shared ownership through considering stakeholder, resident and housing association experiences and perceptions of the tenure.
2 July, 2015
Research carried out my accountancy firm Moore Stephens also shows a large increase in local authorities using charging orders.
2 July, 2015
New House of Commons Library briefing note that explains and compares the legal duties on local authorities (and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive) to assist people presenting as homeless in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
2 July, 2015
New report from Crisis looks at the financial costs of sustained or repeated homelessness and concludes that the longer someone is homeless, or the more often they experience homelessness, the more they will cost the taxpayer.
1 July, 2015
Report from the UK Children's Commissioners recommends that the goverment should urgently address the need for adequate housing for lower-income families and end the use of inappropriate bed-and-breakfast style accommodation for families with children.
30 June, 2015
Scottish Government says that, as well as showing a four per cent fall in homelessness applications in the last year, new statistics recording prevention demonstrate the Housing Options approach has been the reason for homelessness consistently falling.
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