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Pay to stay rules for all landlords
New rules forcing social tenants earning higher incomes to pay market rent to stay in their homes will be compulsory for all social landlords…
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Local rents to match local living wages
Here is an interesting report picked up in the Guardian on line. “A “living rent” based on incomes rather than private sector rates would…
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Leaseholder charges at risk in LAs
Local authorities that charged leaseholders for improvement works funded by the Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) could be open to legalchallenges, following an upper…
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Rent increases and universal credit
Government officials have set up a temporary solution for social landlords facing delays and confusion over how to handle rent increases under universal credit.…
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Rent regulation changes
The core elements of the rent standard are unsurprising given the extensive trailing of the increase and in particular the Government’s direction to the…
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Probems for HA finances from rent convergence changes
Stock transfer organisations had threatened legal action after the government decided to scrap rent convergence – the process of gradually increasing rents until they align with an optimum…
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Rent increases for 2015 onwards
With the September consumer prices index announced in mid-October and with budgets for 2015/16 being prepared, councils and housing associations will soon be calculating…
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New directions on service charge costs from government
The Government has introduced new Directions that cap the amount social housing landlords in England can recover through service charges for the cost of…
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Rent v housing prices – who is in the lead?
Are rents rising more slowly than house prices? This useful article was in the Independent newspaper – read on for the contents: That’s what…
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anti poverty – has the sector lost its soul?
Affordable rent is linked with higher levels of child poverty, Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group told the Chartered Institute…
