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Thursday 23 January 2014
No HB for unemployed migrants from April
Unemployed European Union migrants will no longer be able to claim housing benefit from April. In the Daily Mail newspaper today, home secretary Theresa May and…
Tagged: Welfare Reform
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Thursday 23 January 2014
A New Town to be built near Plymouth
The developers working on a 5,500 home new community near Plymouth have successfully purchased a 1,200 acre site, according to Inside Housing: Planning permission…
Tagged: House Building Housing Strategy
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Thursday 23 January 2014
One in five mortgage payers struggling to pay
Nearly one in five rent or mortgage payers have borrowed money to cover their housing costs, research commissioned by Shelter reveals today to Inside…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty
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Thursday 23 January 2014
Right to buy – may not be a right to let in camden
A council in London is attempting to become the first to bar social tenants that take up the right to buy from ever letting…
Tagged: Private Sector Housing Right to Buy
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Thursday 23 January 2014
First TMO to apply for stock transfer under new regs
The first tenant management organisation to apply for stock transfer in London under new powers will fight a ‘hostile’ supervision order that could delay…
Tagged: Regulation Tenant Involvement
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Sunday 19 January 2014
A European Homelessness Strategy
Politicians in the European Parliament have called for a homelessness strategy spanning the whole of the EU. MEPs adopted a resolution by a margin…
Tagged: Homelessness
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Sunday 19 January 2014
Council Tax to go up?
At least 42 councils across the country are set to increase council tax despite warnings from Government to freeze bills, according to a survey in…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty LA Specific Issues
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Sunday 19 January 2014
Housing experts call for more welfare reform support
Housing experts have called for the Government to increase the amount of cash it has pledged to support people affected by welfare reform as…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty Bedroom Tax Welfare Reform
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Sunday 19 January 2014
Slavery Duty might be introduced
A statutory duty for local authorities to report potential victims of modern slavery could be introduced, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Mr Cameron said…
Tagged: Equality LA Specific Issues
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Friday 10 January 2014
MP suggests expanding bedroom tax to older people
The bedroom tax should be widened to include pensioners, a Conservative MP has said. Julian Brazier, MP for Canterbury, made the claim in a…
Tagged: Bedroom Tax Older people
