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Often when a tenant has a Possession Order made against them they think there is nothing more they can do to save their home. This isn’t always the case. A landlord is required to enforce a Possession Order by obtaining a Warrant for Eviction. A...
A new law has been passed which allows injunctions to be obtained by housing providers, amongst others, against children as young as 10. The civil injunctions will replace ‘ASBOs’ which are currently dealt with in the criminal courts. Housing...
In the last couple of weeks, at a conference at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Communities and Local Government department is considering introducing legislation to stop ‘retaliatory eviction’, where tenants’...
At present there is no housing legislation in place to protect private renting tenants facing eviction from vengeful landlords. The term ‘Retaliatory Eviction’ has often been used to describe a situation where a tenant raises a complaint to...
BBC News has recently reported, after receiving information requested through the Freedom of Information request from 331 social housing providers, only 6% of those households who have been affected by the bedroom tax have actually moved homes. For those of...
The bedroom tax was introduced in April 2013 with promises from the Government that it would save the taxpayer £1 million per day and increase the availability of larger properties to families that need them. However, the BBC has reported that 28% of...
A tenant of Salix Homes allegedly kept her dead pet dog in the kitchen for several days. This almost led to her eviction from her home. In April 2013 Margaret Martin was found to be allegedly keeping her dead dog in the kitchen of her rented...
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) published Guidance on 10th February 2014 on promoting mutual exchange. Mutual exchange occurs when two tenants of social landlords swap properties. The guidance suggests that not enough tenants are...
The results of the second round of Real Life Reforms study were published in December deepening concern for those in social housing accommodation. The study aims to track the impact of welfare reform across 70-100 representative social housing households...
The Manchester Evening News reported recently that a woman had come home from her holiday to find her house had been stripped bare by a local housing association. Unfortunately this story is not all that unique. However, in this instance there had been a...
