12 March, 2015
11 March, 2015
New statutory instrument provides that 1 April 2015 will be the day from which Land and Buildings Transaction Tax replaced UK Stamp Duty in Scotland.
11 March, 2015
11 March, 2015
Measures announced today by Housing Minister Brandon Lewis will take effect from October 2015.
11 March, 2015
Shelter policy blog also reports that, since the commitment by government in December 2011 to ensure every home sold is replaced, 26,184 social rented homes been sold through Right to Buy across England and only 2,712 replacement homes have either been started or bought.
11 March, 2015
New report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation also finds that, while the most affluent areas have seen social care spending rise by 8 per cent, the most deprived areas have seen it cut by 14 per cent.
11 March, 2015
11 March, 2015
[2015] EWHC 534 (QB)
10 March, 2015
New report from Crisis highlights that homeless people are disproportionally sanctioned by virtue of belonging to groups over-represented in the sanctions statistics (young, male), and are more likely to experience barriers to complying with the conditionality regime.
10 March, 2015
New briefing outlines the legal framework contained in Part 6 of the 1996 Housing Act (as amended) within which local authorities allocate their housing stock.
9 March, 2015
Funding will both keep refuges open, and improve standards in existing refuges, says DCLG.
9 March, 2015
'Councils will now have to work to ensure social tenants are no longer forced to choose between their home or the chance of a new job which could transform their lives', says Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
5 March, 2015
New statutory instrument brings into force provision including in relation to requirement on local housing authorities to carry out assessments of the accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers living in, or from time to time visiting, their area.
4 March, 2015
New briefing note gives an overview of the remedies available to social landlords to deal with tenants who exhibit anti-social behaviour.
3 March, 2015
Housing body calls on next government to allow universal credit claimants to choose whether to have housing element paid direct to landlord and asks for additional resources to help manage the change.
2 March, 2015
Open Market Shared Equity Scheme to provides assistance to eligible buyers in the form of an interest free loan.
27 February, 2015
Currently Deputy Legal Director, Head of Planning Law Reform at DCLG, Denise Fowler will take up her appointment on 11 March 2015.
27 February, 2015
Warning from National Housing Federation, who estimate that over 100,000 extra homes for older people will be needed in the housing association sector alone in the next 15 years.
27 February, 2015
According to a poll commissioned by Generation Rent, renters are 75 per cent more likely to experience serious anxiety and depression than homeowners.
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