26 September, 2011
26 September, 2011
Command Paper contains formal response to recommendations and conclusions set out in House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report.
26 September, 2011
Leasehold Advisory Service for England and Wales figures show an increase in complaints to 7,600, reports bbc.co.uk.
23 September, 2011
Tenant Services Authority publishes latest quarterly Social Housing Regulator survey.
22 September, 2011
New regulations bring into force provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 including section 157 (vacant dwellings: use of information obtained for council tax purposes); and section 158 (housing support: persons found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness).
21 September, 2011
Budget includes commitment to social wage, free prescriptions and freeze of council tax.
21 September, 2011
20 September, 2011
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes statistics which include sales under Right to Buy, Preserved Right to Buy, Right to Acquire, Social HomeBuy, other shared equity sales to tenants, and sales of existing stock to private sector.
16 September, 2011
New Homeless Link report highlights the need for homelessness and criminal justice agencies to work together to prevent homelessness and re-offending.
13 September, 2011
Chartered Institute of Housing and the British Property Federation claim government assumptions that cutting benefits will reduce private rents could be 'flawed'.
13 September, 2011
Research published by International Longevity Centre shows that those in extra care housing are half as likely to move into institutional care as people living in the community recieving domiciliary care.
13 September, 2011
Leading charities Clinks, DrugScope, Homeless Link and Mind say we are failing to understand and coordinate support for most excluded and urge political leaders to take action.
13 September, 2011
New statistics show new lettings and sales in England, and the people they house.
13 September, 2011
New research reveals that local authorities admit there are 1,477 known landlords who are repeatedly making tenants’ lives a misery.
12 September, 2011
Research published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the extent to which homelessness amongst single adults is linked to other problems such as mental illness, alcohol dependency and experience of institutions.
12 September, 2011
July and August updates, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
9 September, 2011
Study predicts that the continuing economic downturn combined with the Coalition Government's radical reforms and weakening of the welfare state will leave many more people facing the threat or reality of homelessness.
9 September, 2011
Homeless Link responds to new figures that show that the number of people applying to councils for help with housing has increased by 14% in the last year.
8 September, 2011
New national statistics for April to June 2011.
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