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17 September, 2012

Housing Law Update

Issue 280 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.

17 September, 2012

Homeless Link launches website to help combat rise in homelessness in London

Homelesslondon.org offers information on the rights of those who are homeless and links to services that may be able to help.

17 September, 2012

‘Who can afford retirement housing?’

New Joseph Rowntree Foundation report examines what factors affect the cost of living in retirement housing, if older people on middle incomes can afford retirement housing and whether it is a luxury of people with greater wealth or poorer people with access to benefits.

12 September, 2012

Department of Health announces new ‘Warm homes healthy people’ funding

Local authorities invited to bid for funding to protect individuals and communities from the effects of severe winter weather due to cold housing.

11 September, 2012

Government ‘should revalue council tax bands’ to curb house price inflation

New report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation argues that revaluing council tax to reflect real house prices would also make system fairer.

10 September, 2012

Housing Law Update

Issue 279 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.

10 September, 2012

Homelessness Transition Fund launches round three

Homeless Link announces that from today, homeless charities across England will be able to apply for grants of up £200k to invest in new ways of preventing and tackling rough sleeping.

7 September, 2012

Urgent Action needed to keep more people in their homes, says Homeless Link

Charity responds to government statistics showing a nine per cent increase in the number of homeless households.

7 September, 2012

Crisis concern at proposals to remove obligation for developers to build affordable housing

Charity 'deeply concerned' with measures to water down the requirement for councils and developers to deliver new social and genuinely affordable housing to rent.

7 September, 2012

Statutory Homelessness: April to June Quarter 2012, England

Department for Communities and Local Government publishes figures that show a 9 per cent increase in number of people accepted as owed a main homelessness duty compared to same quarter of 2011.

6 September, 2012

New Housing Minister faces huge task, says Shelter

Housing charity urges Mark Prisk to 'give our housing crisis the attention it deserves'.

5 September, 2012

5 September, 2012

Existing arrangements for community care and housing disputes ‘unsustainable’

Findings of new report from Scottish Committee of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council reviewing the right to appeal against decisions made by Scottish public bodies.

5 September, 2012

Scottish government announces legislative programme for 2012/2013

Package of 15 bills include Adult Health & Social Care Integration Bill, Bankruptcy Bill and Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Bill

5 September, 2012

Mark Prisk appointed as new Minister for Housing

MP for Hertford and Stortford replaces Grant Shapps at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

4 September, 2012

Almost one in four people charged unfair fees by letting agents

New survey published by Shelter shows that 23 per cent - equivalent to 11 million people – said they had been charged unfair fees when renting their home through a letting agent with most common fees being for administration, credit checks and renewing a contract.

4 September, 2012

Review of decisions made by Scottish public bodies where there is no right of appeal

Scottish Committee of AJTC publishes report that recommends the introduction of a number of new appeal jurisdictions or the tightening of existing procedures across key policy areas, including community care and housing.

3 September, 2012

Funding for homelessness to continue to 2015

Department for Communities and Local Government confirms that councils across the country will receive £160m over the next two years in Homelessness Prevention Grants.

3 September, 2012

New regulations in relation to housing in Wales

New statutory instruments in relation to right to buy issued in Wales.