11 February, 2015
11 February, 2015
New report from NSPCC finds that homelessness can affect parents’ ability to meet what babies need for a healthy and safe start in life as the stresses associated with housing instability make it more difficult for parents to provide their babies with sensitive, responsive and consistent emotional care.
11 February, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 72
9 February, 2015
New legislation designed to improve and simplify the arrangements for renting homes by replacing different and complex pieces of legislation with one main piece of legislation, and replacing the different types of tenancies and licences with two types of contract – one for the private rented sector and one for the social rented sector.
6 February, 2015
Due to come into force from April 2018, the proposals mean that landlords will be required by law to get their properties to an energy efficiency rating of at least Band 'E'.
5 February, 2015
Government publishes amendments to the Deregulation Bill which will extend the existing restrictions on a landlord’s powers to evict, where they don’t protect a deposit or have a licence they are required to hold, to situations where a health and safety hazard has been identified by environmental health officers.
5 February, 2015
4 February, 2015
New report, 'Homelessness Monitor- England 2015', also highlights increase in homelessness due to welfare reforms and that loss of a private rented home now accounts for 30 per cent of all statutory homelessness cases.
3 February, 2015
Hodge Jones and Allen reports on permission given to mother of five challenging decision by Westminster to rehouse her and her family in Milton Keynes.
2 February, 2015
Graeme Brown, Director of Shelter Scotland, says they have grave concerns about the proposals and that 'housing law impacts disproportionately on the most vulnerable in society and this proposal would remove protection currently offered to them.'
2 February, 2015
Views sought by 28 February 2015 on proposals from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Homes and Communities Agency to change the operation of the pre-emption right in shared ownership standard leases and other proposals to streamline the resale of shared ownership properties.
30 January, 2015
Decision statement, issued by the Home and Communities Agency, sets out the changes which will come into effect on 1 April 2015.
30 January, 2015
Citizens Advice highlight that this is against a backdrop of an increasing number of problems ranging from illegal eviction to harassment, to lost deposits and struggles to secure the most basic repairs.
29 January, 2015
[2015] EWHC 161 (Admin)
29 January, 2015
Bill, which aims to require private landlords to ensure that any property they let meets the requirements of the Decent Homes Standard, is read for the first time and due to be read a second time on Friday 6 March.
29 January, 2015
[2015] CSIH 8A
29 January, 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 20
28 January, 2015
New Scottish Government statistics for the period from April to September 2014, show that, where contact was maintained with households and an outcome was recorded, only half of 18,500 housing option approaches resulted in the household making a homelessness application.
27 January, 2015
Funding going to the Tenant Participation Advisory Service and Trafford Hall to provide more than 1,500 new training places for social housing tenants wishing to to engage in, manage or control local services by working together.
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