28 August, 2012
28 August, 2012
Charity strongly supports the Welsh Government's ambition that everyone has a home they can afford and that homelessness does not exist, and welcomes the recurring comments on what an important and central role advice services play in housing policy.
28 August, 2012
Applications invited for grant funding to deliver programme for social tenants that will encourage more tenant panels to challenge landlords and get involved in local decision making; and empower tenants to engage with their landlord.
28 August, 2012
Issue 278 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
24 August, 2012
Leading housing organisations issue responses to 'Review of the barriers to institutional investment in private rented homes' report.
23 August, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes report that makes recommendations to speed up the timescale for building the private-rented homes needed to meet existing and growing demand.
21 August, 2012
20 August, 2012
New report from right leaning Policy Exchange says selling off social housing worth more than the average property could create the largest social house building programme since the 1970s.
20 August, 2012
New regulations reduce the information requirements for applications for the renewal of licences for Houses in Multiple Occupation requiring a licence under the Housing Act 2004.
20 August, 2012
Statistical release covers data from an annual online survey completed by all English Private Registered Providers of social housing and shows a 2.4 per cent increase on the total number of homes owned by social housing providers for 2011.
20 August, 2012
Scottish Government consultation has been supported by more than 90 per cent of tenants groups and landlords agreeing that landlords should be able to take into account previous anti-social behaviour when allocating social housing.
20 August, 2012
Issue 277 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
17 August, 2012
Leading organisations issue responses to government's commitment to provide early help for those at risk of losing their home
16 August, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes report that details commitment to ensure that there is help at the earliest possible stage for anyone at risk of homelessness.
16 August, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes paper that provides an overview of financial costs to government from homelessness.
16 August, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes statistics which estimate that more than 199,00 cases of homelessness prevention or relief took place outside the statutory homelessness framework.
14 August, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes video explaining Right to Buy.
13 August, 2012
Crisis publishes analysis of Ministry of Justice statistics that shows that in the last year 36,211 landlords have been granted a court order to evict their tenants.
13 August, 2012
June and July updates, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
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