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Surge in applications for emergency hardship funds
Councils across England have reported a huge surge in applications for help from an emergency hardship fund since the launch of the bedroom tax…
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3 day challenge in High Court over bedroom tax from 15th May
The High Court will next week consider 10 claims being brought against the Government’s ‘Bedroom Tax’ that came into force on 1st April this…
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guardian investgates welfare reofrm changes
The Guardian has taken an in-depth look at welfare reform recently with three exciting pieces about its impact on housing: Report from the CIH’s…
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Access to the Internet by social housing tenants
Social housing continues to lag behind other tenures in terms of internet access, according to the latest data. Figures from research firm Ipsos Mori…
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Welfare reform – impact on arrears
The housing sector has been battening down the hatches in preparation for welfare reforms to hit rent arrears and income collection, but what does this mean…
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How Housing Providers are beating the bedroom Tax
The housing benefit bill has ballooned out of control. It now stands at £23bn and takes up more than a tenth of the welfare budget. Successive…
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The living wage and public policy
This report from IPPR and the Resolution Foundation provides significant new detail on the value, costs and impacts of the living wage, for employees…
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Parliamentary update
As Britain narrowly avoided slipping into a triple dip recession this week, debate continued to rage within the walls of Westminster over the future…
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Report calls for more new bungalows
A thinktank has called for an increase in the number of bungalows being built to allow older people to downsize and free up larger…
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LA led employment schemes – the best?
Local authority-led employment schemes could deliver results seven times better than those achieved the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) national Work Programme, London Councils has claimed. According…
