19 December, 2013
19 December, 2013
Describes the key provisions and provides a commentary on some of the main implications.
18 December, 2013
November update, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
18 December, 2013
Redress Schemes for Lettings Agency Work and Property Management Work (Approval and Designation of Schemes) (England) Order 2013 came into force on 13 December 2013.
16 December, 2013
Issue 337 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
16 December, 2013
Homeless Link asks providers of services to single homeless people to complete online survey as part of new study by University of York.
16 December, 2013
12 December, 2013
'Rent arrears are now the fastest growing debt problem we help people with', says Chief Executive of Money Advice Trust.
11 December, 2013
As a result, Public Service Ombudsman for Wales finds that homeless applicant remained in temporary accommodation for longer than she should, further all social landlords who were signatories to an agreement with local authority failed to notify it when overlooking top applicant on waiting list.
10 December, 2013
New National Housing Federation report also finds that half of people’s disposable income is currently taken up by rent, and in 10 years’ time this will rise to 57 per cent.
10 December, 2013
Nearly Legal comments on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Spencer v Taylor concerning the notice required after a fixed-term AST has come to an end.
10 December, 2013
Since December 2012 there have been almost 11,000 alerts to local authorities from the public using the StreetLink app, phoneline and website.
10 December, 2013
Issue 336 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available
6 December, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman finds that London Borough of Ealing was neglecting its statutory duties by housing the homeless families in B&Bs for up to 10 months.
6 December, 2013
The Bristol TARA project has published the findings of a study of the service use of homeless women, often with multiple and complex needs, which found that housing support workers were fulfilling functions that in the past social workers would have carried out.
5 December, 2013
Chancellor's Autumn Statement 2013 sets out that the government will consult on options for a right to move for local authority tenants who want to move home for reasons related to employment.
5 December, 2013
Chancellor's Autumn Statement 2013 sets out that the government will also provide £100m to establish a fund to increase Right to Buy sales by improving applicants’ access to mortgage finance.
5 December, 2013
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes homelessness statistics for July - September 2013.
4 December, 2013
Ahead of the proposed study, the Office of Fair Trading is seeking views from interested people and businesses about priority areas of concern that may be preventing this market from working well for consumers.
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