28 March, 2012
27 March, 2012
Housing Minister announces new loan fund that will be specifically targeted at projects to bring empty homes into use for affordable housing.
27 March, 2012
Social Housing Regulator’s revised framework makes change so that regulator will only intervene in a service delivery matter if there is evidence of actual or potential serious detriment to tenants.
26 March, 2012
Issue 256 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
23 March, 2012
Housing Minister also announces that members of armed forces are being put at front of queue for social housing and assistance through FirstBuy and HomeBuy schemes.
23 March, 2012
February update, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
23 March, 2012
21 March, 2012
Minister reminds councils to consider evidence showing that every pound spent through housing support service saves £3 in reduced costs in homelessness, tenancy failure, crime, health and residential care packages.
21 March, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes details of the level of council tax set by local authorities.
20 March, 2012
New Joseph Rowntree Foundation report examines six potential policy issues in the Budget, including increasing housing supply, and funding social care.
20 March, 2012
Issue 255 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
19 March, 2012
New Scottish government housing statistics for third quarter 2011 also show that sales of local authority dwellings fell by 22 per cent.
16 March, 2012
New regulations issued in Scotland.
16 March, 2012
New report from SQUASH (Squatters Action for Secure Homes)
15 March, 2012
New measures would give local authority tenants right to ask for tenancy to be transferred to housing association and right to take over day-to-day management of housing services.
15 March, 2012
Annual report expresses concern that lack of government regulation means that consumers have no choice but to undertake potentially costly legal action to pursue a complaint.
14 March, 2012
Consumer Credit Counselling Service annual report shows that renters now make up 55 per cent of its clients, up from 51 per cent in 2009, reports the Guardian.
13 March, 2012
Government publishes new Social Justice strategy that explores 'how we can tackle the root causes of problems to promote real and sustained changes in peoples’ lives'.
13 March, 2012
New statutory instrument makes provision in consequence of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 including that the Scottish Housing Regulator is part of the Scottish Administration.
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