5 November, 2015
4 November, 2015
View sought on issues including how to increase availability of affordable rented housing, effectiveness of schemes such as Help to Buy and whether new measures are needed to increase supply of social housing.
4 November, 2015
Scottish Housing Minister reassures landlords that Bill - which will protect tenants from unforeseen and unfair eviction and unpredictability over rent increases - will enable landlords to manage their property and deal with anti-social behaviour.
4 November, 2015
Funding for 'Open Market Shared Equity Scheme' to be increased by £10m, taking total spending for 2015/2016 to £80m.
3 November, 2015
New briefing outlines the assistance available to long leaseholders of social landlord in blocks of flats, in relation to service charge demands for major works.
3 November, 2015
Briefing discusses background to the Bill - which seeks to introduce a new tenancy for the private rented sector in Scotland to supersede the short assured tenancy and assured tenancy created under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 - and considers the main provisions.
3 November, 2015
2 November, 2015
New statutory instrument makes further provision about the making and determination of applications by tenants to the private rented housing panel under section 22(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 and of applications by third party applicants under section 22(1A) of that Act.
30 October, 2015
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights asks for further information on supply of social and affordable housing, how security of tenure is guaranteed, particularly in the private rental sector, and the measures adopted to protect tenants from forced evictions.
30 October, 2015
Following a review, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has concluded that private registered providers of social housing are public, market producers and as such they will be reclassified to the Public Non-Financial Corporations sub-sector for the purpose of national accounts and other ONS economic statistics with effect from 22 July 2008.
29 October, 2015
New statutory instrument brings into force provisions relating to the requirement for landlords of dwellings let, or to be let, under domestic tenancies, to register with the designated licensing authority.
28 October, 2015
New statutory instrument replaces the amount of the maximum discount in Wales in the prescribed form to be used by a secure tenant claiming to exercise the right to buy.
23 October, 2015
New briefing provides background and comment on the Housing and Planning Bill 2015/2016 which was presented on 13 October 2015 and is scheduled to receive its second reading on 2 November 2015.
20 October, 2015
New research from the Home Office reports on a ‘mystery shopping’ exercise to assess if Black and Minority Ethnic individuals received different and detrimental treatment compared with White British shoppers as a result of the Right to Rent scheme.
20 October, 2015
New report from the Home Office reports on the impact of phase one of the Right to Rent scheme and also includes content on the process of its implementation.
20 October, 2015
Press release from the Home Office advises that under the new rules - introduced in the Immigration Act 2014 - private landlords, including those who sub-let or take in lodgers, must check the right of prospective tenants to be in the country to avoid being hit with a penalty of up to £3,000 per tenant.
20 October, 2015
New report from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research seeks to explore how landlords might respond to different types of rent stabilisation and controls and changes to security of tenure, with a particular focus on differences between different types of landlords, such as those who let to low income tenants or families.
19 October, 2015
House of Commons debate on Private Member's Bill introduced by Karen Buck expected to be resumed on 29 January 2016.
16 October, 2015
New report published by Govan Law Centre finds that private tenants have little or no power in the relationship with their landlord, they have low expectations for standards of property or getting repairs done or being able to influence decisions made on their property, and have little or no choice in where they lived.
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