29 October, 2014
29 October, 2014
Guardian reports on letter to Housing Minister urging him to ensure that every home sold is replaced on a like-for-like basis.
28 October, 2014
[2014] EWHC 3537 (Admin)
27 October, 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 1384
24 October, 2014
Manifesto, launched by ERSA and GUAC, calls for action to make it easier for social housing providers to take on publicly funded employment contracts, an increase in the co-ordination and integration of services to support social housing tenants, and support to increase the capacity of social housing providers to provide good quality employment related support to their residents.
24 October, 2014
New report from IPPR North shows that the English housing market is ill-equipped to cope with an aging population and argues that older people are being let down by inadequate choice, with a growing mismatch between older people and appropriate housing stock.
23 October, 2014
23 October, 2014
Note provides background to government policy on tackling 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.
23 October, 2014
New report from the Audit Commission also finds that the number of social homes recovered from tenancy fraudsters increased by 15 per cent in the last year to 3,030, nearly doubling in the last five years.
23 October, 2014
New decision from Scottish Public Services Ombudsman finds that the housing association had failed to properly appreciate the adverse effects the problem had on the tenant and his son and had not taken all reasonable action to help him.
22 October, 2014
New statutory instrument introduces provisions relating to applications to Property Tribunal arising from Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013.
22 October, 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 1383
17 October, 2014
Responding to the Lyons review which says, without a change of course, the country will be short of up to two million homes by 2020, Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy and Communications at Homeless Link, said the review 'provides a clear roadmap for tackling a major cause of homelessness, the chronic shortage of an affordable place to call home'.
16 October, 2014
New regulations that make provision for which persons from abroad will be eligible or ineligible for an allocation of housing accommodation under Part 6 of the Housing Act 1996 and for housing assistance under Part 7 of the Act.
16 October, 2014
New statistics from DCLG also show that the average discount, as a percentage of market value, of Right to Buy local authority dwellings sold was 47 per cent in 2013/2014 compared to 27 per cent in 2011/2012.
16 October, 2014
New report from Riverside highlights that tenants in the lowest income group have taken on more debts to cover sudden and unforeseen changes in benefit entitlement and the deepening impact of the bedroom tax.
16 October, 2014
New research from Crisis reports that, in 50 out of 87 visits by mystery shoppers to 16 local authorities across England, little or no help was given even though the scenarios presented were that the person had nowhere to stay that evening.
15 October, 2014
New research from Shelter also shows that over 60,000 families threatened with eviction in the past year for complaining about bad conditions in their homes.
15 October, 2014
From 22 October 2014, the shared equity scheme will only apply to homes worth up to £250,000, rather than the current maximum of £400,000.
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