9 December, 2015
8 December, 2015
New report from Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation expresses concerns that homeless people are having to spend more time in temporary accommodation and that some local authorities may be using Housing Options to deny people their statutory rights.
7 December, 2015
Prime Minister announces that from April 2016 anyone earning below £80,000 in England and £90,000 in London will be eligible for shared ownership scheme.
4 December, 2015
New report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds that deepening welfare cuts in the UK mean that those groups entitled to little or no statutory support face extreme housing exclusion – homelessness, severe overcrowding, very poor or insecure housing - and uses lessons from eleven countries to identify solutions to the problem.
3 December, 2015
New analysis from Shelter also shows that figures suggest that, in one in three cases, tenants do end up losing their home.
3 December, 2015
New guidance from Homeless Link aims to give managers in accommodation-based homelessness services a framework to implement good practice around using naloxone as part of a wider harm reduction approach.
3 December, 2015
2 December, 2015
Report from the New Policy Institute recommends that 'revaluation' - which should be carried out locally rather than nationally - also opens up the possibility of changing the structure of the tax, for example the difference between what a bigger place and smaller place pay, the single person discount, and the empty homes premium.
1 December, 2015
New statutory instrument provides that 23 November 2015 is the date when the Cod of Practice comes into force.
30 November, 2015
Results of survey of Chartered Institute of Housing members include that 77 per cent of respondents said the policy was very likely or likely to discourage tenants from increasing their earnings and 59.3 per cent said it was very likely or likely to discourage tenants from finding work.
27 November, 2015
New regulations that make further provision about the making of applications by landlords to the private rented housing panel under section 28A of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 and about the deciding of those applications, and additionally about the actions that the panel member is to take under section 28C of that Act.
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement confirms increased funding for initiatives to prevent and reduce homelessness including devolving an increased level of funding to local authorities while ending the current management fee for temporary accommodation and providing £40m for services for victims of domestic abuse (paragraph 1.149).
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces that, in addition to extension of the existing equity loan scheme, a new London scheme will offer buyers with a 5 per cent deposit a loan of up to 40 per cent of the value of a new build home, interest-free for 5 years (paragraph 1.146).
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces that, from 1 April 2016, higher rates will be 3 percentage points above the current stamp duty rate (paragraph 1.146)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces suite of measures including 135,000 Help to Buy shared ownership homes, 10,000 homes that will allow a tenant to save for a deposit while they rent and at least 8,000 specialist homes for older people and people with disabilities (paragraph 1.146)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces funding for home adaptations which is expected to prevent 8,500 people from needing to go into a care home in 2019/2020 (paragraph 1.109)
25 November, 2015
Autumn Statement announces new 'social care precept' to give local authorities who are responsible for social care the ability to raise new funding to spend exclusively on adult social care (paragraph 1.107).
24 November, 2015
New scheme requires all private landlords in Wales to register themselves and their properties, and, if a landlord wants to manage the property themselves, they must demonstrate they are ‘fit and proper’ to hold a licence, and then undertake, and pass, approved training, or alternatively appoint a licensed agent to manage the property on their behalf.
23 November, 2015
Guardian reports on measure expected to be announced in Autumn Statement on Wednesday.
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