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Inside Housing main news
- HCA delivers 120,000 homes to hit targets
- Duncan Smith unveils radical benefit reforms
- Contractor secures funds after cash plea
- Double success for What’s the Benefit? campaign
- Scrapping TSA could cost government £47m
- Shapps misses carbon definition deadline
- Cestria probes staff grievances
- Rough sleeping advisors axed
- HCA and councils redirect £30 million northern pot
- Landlords under pressure to sell ‘try before you buy’ homes
Nearly Legal – Housing posts only
- HMOs and Council Tax
- Suspended possession orders and insolvency: request for info
- Residing legally …
- Succeeding to a joint tenancy
- What is a service charge?
- A very short note about Wales
- Lets all move to….Parliament Square
- Advert*
- Mortgage rescue schemes and Repos: Facts and models
- Co-ops, equity and void leases
Landlord Law Blog
- Tips for tenants – is that rent increase valid?
- A Landlords Guide to Furniture Storage
- The Novice Guide to Court hearings: part 7 After the hearing
- Why does housing law have to be so complicated?
- Kevin Firth – Notable Property Persons in their own words
Garden Court Chambers Housing Bulletins
Homeless Officer’s Point of View
- Looking back not in anger but totally shocked
- Sometimes one plus one doesn't make two!
- Yet another item on gatekeeping
- Who really cares?
- As Mr Spock would say.......highly illogical!
- Just a follow up to my previous post
- A myopic viewpoint
- Something is seriously amiss!
- Help......am I going mad?
- Two sides of the coin?
- Gatekeeping
- Too much chocolate
- Angry enough to spit here!
- Psst..........want a cheap reasonable preference?
- When idiots collide
Painsmith Blog
- Council Tax in HMOs - An interesting new case in the High Court which was highlighted by the excellent NearlyLegal blog. Where a property is an HMO for Council Tax purposes then the lanldord has the primary liability for Council Tax. The test for an HMO is different from that set out in the Housing Act 2004 and is provided [...]
- Mortgage Protection Notice Requirements Set Out - Further to our previous post on the bringing into force of the Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants etc) Act 2010 the Statutory Instrument setting out the notifications required to be given to possible tenants or occupiers of the property and the form of those notices. The Dwelling Houses (Execution of Possession Orders by Mortgagees) Regulations [...]
- Tenant Mortgage Protection Legislation Coming into Force - We have previously posted on the Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants etc) Act 2010 which was passed through Parliament in the sweeping up process immediately prior to the election. There was some doubt as to whether the new government would actually bring the Act into force but it seems that they have decided to do [...]
- Sale and Rent Back- Final Rules - The FSA has released its final provisions on the operation of sale and rent back schemes.
- Uncertainty About Tenancy Agreements Approaching 1 October - There is some confusion as to how to draw up tenancy agreements for tenancies that will change after 1 October
- Need for HMO Planning Consent to Be Reduced - Some easing of the requirement to obtain planning consent for HMOs is to be allowed.
- County Court Judgement on Renewal Fees - An interesting case has come before a County Court relating to renewal commission charged by a lettings agent.
- No More Regulation - The Housing Minister has made clear that there will be no further regulation of the PRS.
- First Speech From the New Housing Minister - The new Housing Minister has made his first speech
- PainSmith Document Shop Launched - The PainSmith document shop is now open for business
- Assured Tenancies After 1 October 2010 - Assured tenancies will be affected by the changes on 1 October 2010 as well.
- Recoverability of Money Paid in Relation to Unfair Terms - There has been a lot of discussion about the possibility of recovering monies from agents who have sought renewal fees which have been found to be unfair. This is easier said than done.
- Lettings EPCs and HIPs - The SI amending the EPC regulations has now been published.
- HIPs Suspension and Lettings EPCs - HIPs have been suspended but there is no reason to think that this will affect the production of EPCs for let property.
- ASTs and Security of Tenure after 1 October - Some incorrect advice is being given as to the possible termination date of tenancies which beocme ASTs on 1 October 2010
Housed
- Legal type question!
- Social services, bless them
- The Social Welfare Law wiki
- Clients, clients, where for art thou clients…
- Shelter Closures
- William Flack Blog link repaired
- New LSC rates and Keycard
- Stupid question probably
- Public Law refresher!
- Ho hum
Guardian Housing Feed
- Santander and Affinity Sutton launch shared-ownership scheme
- Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reform deserves support | Kate Stanley
- Duncan Smith shakes up benefits in bid to cut costs and increase job incentives
- Dale Farm Travellers: 'We won't just get up and leave'
- Video: Waiting for the bulldozers: the women of Dale Farm
- Housing benefit cuts will leave poorest £600 worse off
- Benefit cuts: 750,000 risk losing homes in south-east, associations warn
- London housing crisis: Boris Johnson seeks "transitional arrangements" to ease impact of benefit cap and cut
- Letters: A house is a home for many more
- London housing crisis: housing benefit number crunch
- Housing benefit cuts: how much will the council pay out in your area?
- Budget's cuts to housing benefit will price people out of many areas
- Housing was Labour's great failure. Now it gets worse | Polly Toynbee
- Stop vandals by training residents, Big Society report says
- Rachel Johnson: she agrees with Ken
Shelter News
- Benefits reform cautiously welcomed
- Homeowner help warning
- Good luck Jason!
- Time for bed!
- 900,000 ‘forgotten households’
- Wates celebrate with Strip4Shelter
- Shelter survives Glasto heat
- Bad news for homeowners
- Housing benefit warning
- We're off to Glastonbury
Shelter Roof blog
- Mortgage approvals fall for third consecutive month
- Government asks experts to offer boost for council building
- Council tenants who sublet could face jail
- Mortgage protection costs leap as jobless queues lengthen
- Mortgage help makes profit for claimants
- Councils poised to regain right to housing cash
- Rise in red tape will choke landlords and ‘push up rents’
- HCA consults on proposed new core design standards
- Stamp duty boost for first-time home buyers
- Housing benefit capped at £1,100 a week
Communities.gov.uk Housing news
- New steps to cut the cost of moving home and open up the books - Home buyers can access more information about their new home without having to pay for the information, the Government announced today. (continues...)
- Grant Shapps: New estimates offer truer picture of street sleeping - New additional estimates published today show that the number of people sleeping rough on the streets could be more than treble the official national Rough Sleeping Count - a truer reflection of the problem according to Housing Minister Grant Shapps. (continues...)
- Grant Shapps sets out vision to protect and preserve rural village life - Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today set out his vision for protecting the future of rural village life for generations to come, by giving local communities the power to build the homes they need. (continues...)
- Grant Shapps outlines Government support for struggling homeonwers - Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today outlined how the Coalition Government will provide much-needed support to homeowners at risk of repossession. (continues...)
- Grant Shapps to overhaul rough sleeper counts - Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced that the numbers of rough sleepers have hit an 11-year low - but that he is reviewing the way counts are conducted. (continues...)
Communities.gov.uk Communities news
- Grant Shapps sets out vision to protect and preserve rural village life - Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today set out his vision for protecting the future of rural village life for generations to come, by giving local communities the power to build the homes they need. (continues...)
- Communities are ready for the Big Society - Only a minority of people feel that they can influence local decisions or have engaged in some form of civic participation in the last year, according to survey findings published today. (continues...)
- Communities minister celebrates equalities scheme - Communities Minister Andrew Stunell met with over 60 women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds yesterday, after they graduated from a ground-breaking mentoring scheme. (continues...)
William Flack Blog
- Housing Minister Denounces Local Authority Dishonesty On Homelessness
- iPad Review
- FreeLegalWeb – The Future I Hoped For Is Here!
- Ugly Sectarian Divide In Housing Law
- Stalinist Statistics From Community Legal Advice.
- Video Blog Post : What Is Social Welfare Law?
- Good Bye Legal Services Commission: To Be Sadly Missed By Nobody
- Introducing the ASBO Application for Mobile Phones
- Two Videos About The Work of Law Centres
- Homelessness, Domestic Violence and Politicians
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