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New Housing Rights Website launched by BME National and CIH
The Housing Rights website aims to provide accurate information to recent arrivals and to advisers about entitlements to housing, based on people’s immigration status.…
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DWP to decide whether to scrap the Universal credit IT system
It’s been widely reported this week that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Ministers are to decide this month whether to scrap all of…
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What is happening in parliament?
In this week’s parliamentary briefing, The guardian have the transcript of the Westminster Hall debate on the bedroom tax, a DWP minister answers questions…
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New Social Housing Policy Rents – consultation
The government has launched a consultation on its proposed social rents policy from April 2015 onwards, consultation closes on 24th December 2014 The policy, which was…
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Underspend in discretionary payments
English authorities could be forced to return £26 million to government if they don’t start spending Millions of pounds of unspent emergency housing funding…
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Can town planning eradicate poverty?
Planning has played a transformational role in improving the quality of life of all of our communities and has a critical responsibility to tackle poverty. It has…
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Report – Encouraging social housing tenants to save
Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 220 social housing tenants and research meetings with social landlords, Bad Weather, Good Habits: Encouraging social housing tenants to…
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55% of households have their benefits reduced following caps in April
Over 18,000 households have had their benefits reduced following the introduction of caps in April this year, according to LG News Figures from the Department…
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The case for a living wage – more jobs
Government claims that nationwide take up of the Living Wage would cost 160,000 jobs have been countered by a leading economist, who has calculated…
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Access to lending for tenants
One in five social tenants are unable to get loans from traditional mainstream lenders because they fail to pass credit tests, research suggests, according…
