25 March, 2014
25 March, 2014
Finding against Newham Council, Local Government Ombudsman says that family was given 'Hobson’s choice' when it came to accepting accommodation they were offered - 'they had the choice of something unsuitable or nothing at all.'
25 March, 2014
New statistics show that Scottish local authorities received around 8,000 applications for homelessness assistance during October to December 2013, 10 per cent lower than in the same period in 2012.
24 March, 2014
Issue 349 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
24 March, 2014
New article looks at how flexible tenancies can be ended during the fixed term.
24 March, 2014
New figures from charity also show 16 per cent increase in number of queries related to rent arrears for council or housing association tenants.
21 March, 2014
17 March, 2014
Issue 348 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
17 March, 2014
Talking to BBC, George Osborne says that extension of scheme, which was going to end in 2016, 'will mean 120,000 new homes'.
17 March, 2014
Open letter to Western Mail, from organisations including Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru and Shelter Cymru, welcomes Welsh Government proposal to introduce national and mandatory registration and licensing scheme.
17 March, 2014
Association says that it is costing councils more than £200m a year to give discount to people living in properties rated band E and above where there is only one council taxpayer.
17 March, 2014
[2014] EWHC 746 (QB)
14 March, 2014
Consultation to focus on eligibility regulations as they relate to allocation of housing and homelessness, and who is eligible for housing and the homelessness duty.
14 March, 2014
New legislation designed to assist - among others - those physically disabled, seriously ill or mentally incapacitated leaseholders currently unable to benefit from the exercise of their rights, for example to take part in collective enfranchisement or to extend their leases.
14 March, 2014
Amongst other measures, new Act provides for new grounds for possession in relation to anti-social behaviour.
13 March, 2014
Last year, StepChange Debt Charity helped 45,561 people in arrears on council tax, up from 25,500 in 2012, an increase of 77 percent.
13 March, 2014
Bill, that also proposes establishing a housing ombudsman service for tenants in the private rented sector, to receive Second Reading on 6 June 2014.
13 March, 2014
New report from CIH Scotland explores the impact of the bedroom tax on void relet times and other aspects of stock management.
12 March, 2014
New statutory instrument makes amendments to prescribed forms in consequence of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and inserts references in those forms to universal credit.
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