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19 July, 2012

Allocation of Housing (Qualification Criteria for Armed Forces) (England) Regulations 2012

New regulations ensure that where a local housing authority uses a local connection requirement as a criterion to decide whether a class of persons qualify for an allocation of housing accommodation, they must not apply that criterion to those in the armed forces.

19 July, 2012

UK third least affordable in Europe for housing costs

Shelter reports that new findings, published by the European Union show that one in six people in the UK are overburdened by housing costs.

18 July, 2012

Council Tax Information Letter 1/2012: Service personnel and second homes

Department for Communities and Local Government publishes information to make authorities aware of the position regarding Service personnel when applying for council tax second homes discount.

17 July, 2012

More than 200,000 social tenants to get detailed access as to how their landlords spend money

Housing Minister welcomes news that Adactus, Hyde and Sanctuary housing associations are to publish details of their spending.

16 July, 2012

Housing Law Update

Issue 272 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.

13 July, 2012

Housing (Right to Manage) (England) Regulations 2012

New regulations provide for a procedure to enable local authority tenants to take over the management of housing services relating to their homes from their local housing authority landlord.

13 July, 2012

Government publishes responses to ‘right to transfer’ and ‘right to manage’ regulations consultation

Consultation document sought views on proposals to give local authority tenants right to ask for tenancy to be transferred to housing association and right to take over day-to-day management of housing services.

13 July, 2012

Social Housing Fraud consultation responses

Department for Communities and Local Government publishes responses to the consultation on proposals to help landlords reduce prevalence of tenancy fraud within social housing.

11 July, 2012

New Charter for Housing launched

Chartered Institute of Housing launches an equality and diversity charter for housing that provides a framework to help housing providers deliver best practice in the housing sector.

9 July, 2012

Housing Law Update

Issue 271 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.

6 July, 2012

Property Factors (Code of Conduct) (Scotland) Order 2012

New regulations bring into force a code of conduct setting out minimum standards of practice for property factors registered in the register of property factors.

5 July, 2012

English Housing Survey: Homes Report 2010

New Communities and Local Government report sets out findings from survey and builds on English Housing Survey Headline Report published in February 2012.

4 July, 2012

Estate agents and housing websites preventing young, disabled people from living independently

New study 'Locked Out' found that many estate agents, local authorities and private landlords had little or no understanding of accessible property and failed to list features such as step-free access, reports guardian.co.uk.

4 July, 2012

Financial viability of the social housing sector

National Audit Office publishes report on Affordable Homes Programme that shows that half of the planned homes are not due to be delivered until 2015, and some providers may not be able to charge rents at the levels originally agreed.

3 July, 2012

Multiple exclusion homelessness research

Homeless Link publishes research that examines the extent to which homelessness amongst single adults is linked with other problems such as mental ill-health, alcohol dependency and experience of institutions such as prison.

2 July, 2012

Compulsory scheme to safeguard rent deposits for households in Scotland comes into force.

New regulations offer, for the first time, a fair, cost effective approach that safeguards tenancy deposits, says Scottish Housing Minister.

2 July, 2012

Majority of English councils sign-up for ‘reinvigorated’ Right to Buy scheme

Scheme requires local authorites to spend money raised on new affordable homes for rent within three years of first receiving it.

2 July, 2012

Scandalous that in 21st Century England there is no basic right to shelter

Crisis chief executive responds to 43 per cent increase in the number of people seen sleeping rough last year on London's streets.

2 July, 2012

Housing Law Update

Issue 270 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available. (2 July, 2012)