2 September, 2014
1 September, 2014
However, new report also warns that more effective regulation is needed to tackle unscrupulous landlords and to ban letting agents from charging tenants fees.
29 August, 2014
New reports set out how Scotland’s social landlords are performing against the Scottish Social Housing Charter in the areas tenants told the Regulator matter most: homes and rents, quality and maintenance, neighbourhoods, tenant satisfaction and value for money.
29 August, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman also finds that the couple did not receive adequate housing advice and their housing application was not prioritised in accordance with the council's housing policy, and in addition the council continued to charge council tax on the couple's former home even though an exemption should have been applied.
22 August, 2014
New report from the Policy Exchange says that the results of decades of neglect and ghettoization have led to acute social problems that are entrenched and generational.
21 August, 2014
New statistics also show that London Boroughs accounted for 33 per cent of sales, the highest percentage since statistics became available.
18 August, 2014
15 August, 2014
Fact that working households who are ‘housing pinched’ and in the bottom half of the income distribution have so little left over, in cash terms, to pay for other things, is a real cause for concern, says Resolution Foundation.
14 August, 2014
Figures in today's publication include that, in the first quarter of 2014, there were 12,540 local authority homelessness acceptances.
14 August, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman recommends that Fylde Borough Council apologise to each resident of a housing complex for failing to ensure that the association who ran the complex consulted them properly on disposing of their homes to a developer.
12 August, 2014
Figures include that, in 2012-13, there were 4.1m dwellings in England owned leasehold, of which 2.4m were in the owner occupied sector and 1.7m privately owned but let in the private rented sector.
12 August, 2014
New DCLG guidance to social landlords on capping service charges where improvement works are funded by government.
8 August, 2014
New report from the National Housing Federation - based on discussions with the DWP and housing associations in areas where universal credit has been introduced - that provides information to help other housing association in their own preparations for the new benefit, and makes recommendations to the DWP for improvements that need to be made to the system.
7 August, 2014
New regulations that prescribe the procedure for the making, variation and deletion of site rules, prescribe the matters to which site rules may and may not relate, and grant appeal rights in relation to these matters, under section 52 of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013.
7 August, 2014
New Ministry of Justice statistics report that this is both the second highest quarter 2 figure since 2009 and the lowest quarterly figure for two years.
7 August, 2014
Analysis of Freedom of Information requests by Shelter also suggests that around one in four households subject to the benefit cap in London are in temporary accommodation.
6 August, 2014
New Home Office guide to new rules that will mean that, from late autumn 2014, landlords in some areas will need to check that tenants have a right to rent in the UK before letting a property to them.
6 August, 2014
Nearly Legal reports that permission to appeal in Aster Communities Ltd v Akerman-Livingstone was granted by the Supreme Court the day after the Court of Appeal's decision.
5 August, 2014
New legislation that makes provision about housing in Scotland, including in relation to the abolition of the right to buy, social housing, the law affecting private housing, the regulation of letting agents and the licensing of sites for mobile homes.
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