2 April, 2024
2 April, 2024
Minister says changes demonstrate the value of the agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA to put policies in place that better meet the needs of local communities
2 April, 2024
28 March, 2024
28 March, 2024
MPs call for government to take clear and urgent action to reform how schemes currently operate so they can deliver an affordable route to home ownership
27 March, 2024
Housing (Scotland) Bill includes measures requiring social landlords and public bodies to 'ask and act' to prevent homelessness, the introduction of long-term private sector rent controls, and strengthened protections against eviction
26 March, 2024
22 March, 2024
Letter to Secretary of State warns that the delay is impacting tenants, leaseholders and others by exposing them to continued malpractice
21 March, 2024
New statutory instruments amend existing processes to ensure that rent increases can be limited to a maximum of 12 per cent for a one-year period after expiry of rent cap provisions on 31 March 2024
21 March, 2024
New DLUHC figures also confirm that all local authorities with social care responsibilities have opted to use some or all of the social care precept flexibilities to increase bills by up to 2 per cent
20 March, 2024
18 March, 2024
Letter to Senedd Committee highlights that 'dehumanising' measures are at odds with the Welsh Government's own Ending Homelessness Action Plan
15 March, 2024
Leading housing and refugee support organisations highlight increase of almost 1,000 per cent in number of people sleeping rough who had left asylum support in previous 85 days
14 March, 2024
Ombudsman also finds Kensington and Chelsea Council to have caused injustice by failing to account for the impact of domestic abuse on the homeless person because it did not consider the alleged perpetrator as a ‘relative’
14 March, 2024
New statutory instrument also expires a second temporary easement relating to the six-week maximum period that local authorities can accommodate a person with family commitments in B&B accommodation
13 March, 2024
Joint letter to DLUHC Secretary of State calls for new Tenancy Support Programme instead of mandatory eviction ground so that evictions on the grounds of arrears would only ever happen as a last resort
13 March, 2024
Minister adds that a number of councils have also indicated they will increase the percentage charged year on year, over a three-year period, particularly for long-term empty properties
12 March, 2024
Consultation follows another record year in cases, that have increased by more than 90 per cent with a more than 70 per cent maladministration rate
11 March, 2024
Writing to local authorities, DLUHC confirms that new rules relating to empty homes and second homes will come into effect from April 2024
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