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This is the first of two new posts inspired by the Housing View Team (the very brilliant Justin Bates and Andrew Dymond) which produce a weekly newsletter about housing law and […]
This is going to be very much an assortment of different things which have been happening in the background (partly because I have just completed the Legal Action owner-occupier update […]
This deep dive into the Bill concerns the provision of temporary accommodation to homeless applicants while their application is being considered. This is called "interim accommodation". Such accommodation is required […]
So far in these posts, I have focused mostly on the homelessness stuff in the Bill. Today's post straddles both parts and deals with clauses 10 and 36. Or, more […]
Last week, I attended an online presentation of a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Bevan Foundation about poverty in Wales. It was pretty depressing, and the climate […]
In this post, I have decided not to publicise or hyperlink to news or media stories but I have become aware of certain aspirational politicians within certain parties who are […]
This second deep dive post into the Bill concerns the duty to "ask and act" in clauses 21-2 of the Bill. These clauses reflect a broader shift in the Bill, […]
This is the first of probably a few deep dives into the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill's clauses, and it is at the behest of somebody who asked me […]
I'm afraid that I am, and have been for the last 30 years (since I came across it), a shared ownership sceptic. With my colleagues, I have written fairly extensively […]
This research report, authored by Helen Carr, Miranda Keast and myself, has now been published. This blog, in fact, came about in part because a lot of people told us […]
