21 June, 2011
20 June, 2011
Shelter research shows 38 per cent of people in Britain believe high housing costs cause stress and depression in their family.
20 June, 2011
Issue 222 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
15 June, 2011
Government publishes consultation paper containing proposals for updating property value limits used to determine whether certain rights are available to residential long leaseholders.
15 June, 2011
Housing Minister announces that proposals in Localism Bill will mean that homeless families will helped to find a suitable, safe and secure home in private rented sector.
15 June, 2011
£535,000 training programme launched to give tenants confidence and skills to sit on tenant panels to represent their neighbours and resolve local disputes.
13 June, 2011
10 June, 2011
New Statutory Rule that increases rents registered with the rent officer for Northern Ireland, during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 3 April 2011, by 3.75 per cent.
10 June, 2011
Shelter, Crisis and Homeless Link issue responses to today's National Statistics publication that shows an increase in homelessness.
10 June, 2011
Department for Communities and Local Government publishes document appraising reforms to delivery of social housing, including giving flexibility to social landlords to determine types of tenancies, and a new policy on rents.
10 June, 2011
Government publishes homelessness statistics which also show 23 per cent increase in number of people approaching local council for housing help.
8 June, 2011
New report provides an updated picture of services for homeless people and tracks changes compared to previous years.
6 June, 2011
Telegraph reports that ministers will target those who can afford to buy or rent a house but instead choose to live in a council house.
6 June, 2011
Young people account for 1 in 4 of all homelessness enquiries, says Citizens Advice.
6 June, 2011
Crisis warns that changes to Shared Accommodation Rate threatens to force vulnerable people into homelessness.
6 June, 2011
Issue 220 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
2 June, 2011
Council of Mortgage Lenders publishes mortgage and housing market forecasts which predict arrears and possessions are set to rise and remain at high levels.
1 June, 2011
New report published by IPPR says that the FSA should recommend ‘loan to value’ and ‘loan to income’ caps in its current Mortgage Market Review.
1 June, 2011
April update, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
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