23 July, 2015
22 July, 2015
New statutory instrument confers functions on the Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal to approve the exercise of statutory powers of entry conferred on listing officers and valuation officers of the Valuation Office Agency where the occupier of the property has refused consent, and on the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal in relation to appeals regarding childcare payments.
22 July, 2015
Information on scheme, which starts on 1 December 2015, awarding first time buyers amount equivalent to 25 per cent of their savings of up to £200 a month, with maximum award of £3,000.
21 July, 2015
Today's letter sets out the steps the Regulator expects housing providers to take following the Budget 'to give an assurance that they are adapting to the changed operating environment'.
21 July, 2015
Amendment echoes concerns expressed by the National Housing Federation that forcing housing associations to sell property, even if they are fully compensated financially, sets a dangerous precedent for government intervention in independent charities.
17 July, 2015
New regulations that raise the tax relief limit for renting a room from £4,250 to £7,500 with effect from April 2016
17 July, 2015
16 July, 2015
Report concludes that the most cost effective way forward is to keep an annual format with no pause in 2015/2016, and the best way of making additional savings from the English Housing Survey from 2016/2017 onwards would be to alter the scale or scope of the survey and to streamline the reporting process.
16 July, 2015
Following a 45 per cent reduction in social housing available since the Right to Buy policy was introduced, the maximum discount on properties in Wales is now £8,000 reduced from £16,000.
9 July, 2015
Clauses 19 and 20 of new Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015/2016 provide, subject to exceptions, for registered providers of social housing to have to 'secure that the amount of rent payable in a relevant year by a tenant of their social housing in England is 1 per cent less than the amount that was payable by the tenant in the preceding 12 months'
9 July, 2015
New DCLG statistics include that a total of 220,800 cases of homelessness prevention or relief are estimated to have taken place outside the statutory homelessness framework in England - a fall of 3 per cent on last year - and that, of these cases, 205,100 (93 per cent) were preventions and 15,700 (7 per cent) were cases of relief.
9 July, 2015
New report from Homeless Link looks at how partnership between health and homelessness sectors could be used to prevent homelessness and benefit health and wellbeing.
8 July, 2015
Government announces in summer Budget that social housing tenants with household incomes of £40,000 and above in London, and £30,000 and above in the rest of England, will be required to pay a market or near market rent for their accommodation (paragraph 1.154).
8 July, 2015
Increase from £4,250 - the first rise since 1997 - will take effect from April 2016 (paragraph 1.193).
8 July, 2015
Announcement in summer Budget means housing associations and local authorities will be required to 'deliver efficiency savings, making better use of the £13bn annual subsidy they receive from the taxpayer' (paragraph 1.140).
8 July, 2015
New information from the Valuation Office Agency
6 July, 2015
Politics Home reports that, writing in the Sun on Sunday, Mr Osborne said - 'Those earning £40,000 a year in London and £30,000 a year in other parts of the country will have to pay the market rent or at least something close to it, if they want to stay in their homes. It’s a simple matter of fairness.'
6 July, 2015
BBC reports on joint article in Times by George Osborne and David Cameron ahead of Wednesday's Budget.
6 July, 2015
Guardian reports on research carried out by University of Cambridge for Shelter including that 31 per cent of landlords surveyed said they would sell all or some of their properties immediately if rents were frozen, meaning less choice for those in the private rented sector.
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