5 February, 2015
4 February, 2015
New report, 'Homelessness Monitor- England 2015', also highlights increase in homelessness due to welfare reforms and that loss of a private rented home now accounts for 30 per cent of all statutory homelessness cases.
3 February, 2015
Hodge Jones and Allen reports on permission given to mother of five challenging decision by Westminster to rehouse her and her family in Milton Keynes.
2 February, 2015
Graeme Brown, Director of Shelter Scotland, says they have grave concerns about the proposals and that 'housing law impacts disproportionately on the most vulnerable in society and this proposal would remove protection currently offered to them.'
2 February, 2015
Views sought by 28 February 2015 on proposals from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Homes and Communities Agency to change the operation of the pre-emption right in shared ownership standard leases and other proposals to streamline the resale of shared ownership properties.
30 January, 2015
Decision statement, issued by the Home and Communities Agency, sets out the changes which will come into effect on 1 April 2015.
30 January, 2015
29 January, 2015
Bill, which aims to require private landlords to ensure that any property they let meets the requirements of the Decent Homes Standard, is read for the first time and due to be read a second time on Friday 6 March.
28 January, 2015
New Scottish Government statistics for the period from April to September 2014, show that, where contact was maintained with households and an outcome was recorded, only half of 18,500 housing option approaches resulted in the household making a homelessness application.
27 January, 2015
Funding going to the Tenant Participation Advisory Service and Trafford Hall to provide more than 1,500 new training places for social housing tenants wishing to to engage in, manage or control local services by working together.
27 January, 2015
Under legislative proposals, if Valuation Office officials have been unable to gain access to a property by consent, they will have to seek the authority of a judicial tribunal to scrutinise the proposed entry.
26 January, 2015
Guardian reports that government has failed to fulfil its 2011 pledge that it would replace every property sold under the scheme with a new one.
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
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.
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.
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.
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