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The housing crisis – and four fatal mindsets which make solving it (almost) impossible

March 11, 2014 by Tessa J Shepperson

  A home, the place where you live, is enormously important. We all need somewhere to go, somewhere we feel safe. But many people do not have this. Poor housing can make you ill. It can affect … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: Housing, Housing benefit, Poor Housing

Ben Reeve Lewis Newsround #136

January 10, 2014 by Ben Reeve-Lewis

[Ben Reeve Lewis is glad to be back...] After over two years writing Newsround it has become so much part of my routine that I actually missed writing it these past two weeks, like not brushing your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and comment Tagged With: Bedroom Tax, Housing benefit, letting agents, local authorities

Why should landlords rent to tenants on housing benefit?

January 6, 2014 by Tessa J Shepperson

Housing

Welcome back to the Landlord Law Blog after the Christmas break. The big landlord related story over the past few days is that of the Wilsons (who rent out some 1,000 properties in the Ashford … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and comment Tagged With: Benefit, Housing benefit

Report on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee report

July 31, 2013 by Samir

Samir Jeraj takes a look at the recent report on the PRS. In the last two weeks private rented housing (or PRS to use the jargon) has been on the mind of every policy wonk in the UK. The reason … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and comment Tagged With: Communities And Local Government, Housing benefit

Ben's Public Eye #1

May 17, 2013 by Ben Reeve-Lewis

A monthly look at life in social housing land 2013 is the year of the apocalypse. Anyone working in front facing housing services has been dreading this year for quite some time. The four horsemen of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and comment Tagged With: Bedroom Tax, Housing, Housing benefit, social housing

Landlord having to refund benefit back to the council

May 2, 2013 by Tessa J Shepperson

Here is a question to the blog clinic from Brendan who is a landlord I am a landlord, recently I received a letter from the council telling me that I have to repay housing benefit because they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and comment Tagged With: Benefit, Housing benefit

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