14 June, 2012
14 June, 2012
Housing Minister Grant Shapps publishes consultation that includes proposals that would see high-income tenants potentially paying up to market rents to continue living in taxpayer-subsidised housing.
14 June, 2012
Chartered Institute of Housing publishes research that shows that to stimulate economic growth across the UK investment is needed in the housing sector.
13 June, 2012
Joseph Rowntree Foundation report shows that an extra 1.5 million 18 to 30-year-olds will be forced into private renting in eight years' time, with an extra half a million forced to stay with parents.
12 June, 2012
New Consumer Credit Counselling Service report shows a 27 per cent increase in the number of people needing help with council tax arrears despite council tax freeze.
11 June, 2012
New report by the Resolution Foundation and Shelter from Cambridge University considers how the housing market will change if current economic trends continue, including low levels of house building, constrained mortgage finance and low income growth.
11 June, 2012
8 June, 2012
Scottish Government publishes proposed changes that would cut the discounts available to those who wish to purchase their home through right to buy and place greater restrictions on where it would be available.
7 June, 2012
New figures from Consumer Credit Counselling Service show that fewer homeowners in their twenties are seeking the charity’s help, and the number of homeowners in mortgage arrears has almost halved in two years.
7 June, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes leaflet that provides general information on the scheme.
6 June, 2012
New regulations make provision about the making and determination of applications by homeowners to the homeowner housing panel under the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011.
6 June, 2012
New regulations prescribe additional information that a person must provide, and make provision for the fees that a person must pay, in relation to an application for entry in the register of property factors.
6 June, 2012
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told the Daily Telegraph that government is 'keen to remove tax and other regulatory obstacles to families having a live-in annexe for immediate relations', reports bbc.co.uk.
6 June, 2012
Issue 266 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
1 June, 2012
New report published by the University of Salford examines the roles that different factors play in people's lives and whether these factors have an impact on homelessness.
31 May, 2012
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes proposed rules in new consultation that also sets out how homeless families should face the least possible disruption when being offered new accommodation.
31 May, 2012
Government publishes bi-annual count of gypsy and traveller caravans that records number of caravans on both authorised and unauthorised sites across England.
30 May, 2012
Consumer Credit Counselling Service figures show a 27 per cent increase on previous year in number of requests for help from people with rent arrears.
30 May, 2012
April update, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
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