26 January, 2015
23 January, 2015
Views sought by 16 April 2015 on the Welsh government's proposals to change existing legislation to reduce the maximum discount available to a tenant who applies to buy their home from their council or housing association landlord, and develop new legislation to end the Right to Buy and Right to Acquire.
22 January, 2015
Telegraph reports that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith amongst those backing proposal which could form part of Conservative election manifesto.
22 January, 2015
[2015] EWHC 65 (Ch)
22 January, 2015
Deputy First Minister John Swinney sets out new rates which will see 50 per cent of all household transactions paying no tax and over 40,000 buyers paying less on the purchase of a new home.
22 January, 2015
Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Lesley Griffiths also sets out plans to halve the current maximum discount from £16,000 to £8,000.
22 January, 2015
21 January, 2015
[2015] EWHC 44 (Admin)
21 January, 2015
Consultation asks users of the survey to comment on approaches for making savings on the survey and to suggest alternatives for achieving the same outcome.
21 January, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 14
19 January, 2015
New blog on recent County Court cases and settled cases on damages for disrepair.
19 January, 2015
New briefing provides background to government policy on statutory homelessness, i.e. those households for whom local authorities, after receiving an application, have a duty to secure accommodation because they are unintentionally homeless and in a priority need category.
19 January, 2015
New briefing provides information on the number of households accepted as statutorily homeless who are placed in temporary accommodation and associated government policy.
19 January, 2015
Research on how local authorities have successfully developed and maintained gypsy and traveller sites in Scotland commissioned in response to claims from some Scottish local authorities that they were unable to secure land or planning permission to build new permanent or transit sites.
16 January, 2015
Views sought by 26 February 2015 on the statutory instruments under part 2 of the Act, which introduces a new style of government to tackle homelessness and the threat of homelessness, including a greater emphasis on preventing homelessness.
15 January, 2015
Andrew Arden QC and Clare Cullen consider a recent report from Crisis focusing on the difficulty in establishing that a homeless person is in 'priority need' due to vulnerability.
15 January, 2015
Tenants' views sought on the role they can play in shaping the delivery of social housing, and the services they receive from social landlords.
14 January, 2015
Manifesto calls for next government to take action on five key areas - rough sleeping, employment, housing, support for people with the most complex needs, and long-term strategy - and sets out practical steps that will enable homelessness services to innovate and support people who become homeless to thrive.
13 January, 2015
New statistics also show that, while the number of applications for homelessness assistance has fallen by three per cent compared to the same period last year, the number of households in temporary accommodation has remained almost unchanged.
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