Sentences with phrase «as social landlords»

Views are also sought from practitioners such as social landlords and local authorities who use such orders and may feel the relief is being effectively and properly used.

Not exact matches

Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).

But there are scores of millions of Americans who would choose not to recognize same - sex «marriage» as the real thing, if they were fully free to choose, as employers, educators, landlords, providers of goods and services, social service providers, and so on.

Banks, employers, social workers, university lecturers, and, thanks to a 2014 Act, landlords, are required to check identity and legal status, or monitor the behaviour of those subject to immigration controls (such as attendance at lectures or moving house).

Warm and Well Cornwall will help 220 private homes, including owners, landlords or tenants and up to 800 social housing homes with first time central heating, such as renewable heating, mains gas, oil, or LPG, with many more to follow in future years.

Many teachers and principals were Jews, and members of that religious group, as schoolteachers, social workers, shopkeepers, and small landlords, were seen by black militants as the exploiters of African Americans.

Thanks to the support of arts patron and former landlord Mike Casey and Ramirez» estate, this home continues to function as a site of social connectivity, hosting frequent community gatherings and out - of - town guests, as well as an annual international residency program for arts writers and curators like myself.

Zia Bhaloo QC A leading silk for property and commercial real estate, whose social housing practice primarily involves high - value planning and development issues, as well as landlord and tenant disputes.

The High Court has already distinguished YL and held that many registered social landlords, in receipt of a large element of public subsidy and used as a means of achieving governmental policy in relation to affordable housing, are, in allocating and managing social housing, exercising public functions.

The management and allocation of housing stock by a housing trust which is a registered social landlord under the Housing Act 1996, including decisions concerning the termination of a tenancy, is a function of a public nature, with the effect that the registered social landlord is to regarded as a public authority for the purposes of s 6 (3)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998 and so is amenable to judicial review on conventional public law grounds in respect of its performance of that function.

Tamara has vast experience of all forms of Property law representing landlords and tenants as well as Lenders in proceedings ranging from standard possession claims to more complex issues of art 8 and unreasonableness, undue influence in mortgage fraud (Ertridge), Judicial Review and reasonableness of action on the part of social housing authorities, co-habitee and family resulting / constructive Trusts, injunctions and applications under s91 of the LPA 1925 to the High Court for orders for sale in mortgage possession proceedings.

The firm's legal services include Residential Property, Wills, Probate, Powers of Attorney, Family Law including Civil Partnerships and Divorce, Litigation, as well as representing the landlords of social housing stock.

Chris has argued matters before the Superior and Divisional Court, and has appeared as counsel before a number of administrative tribunals and boards including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Ministry of Labour, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, the Office of the Review Tribunal and the Pension Appeals Board (now known as the Social Security Tribunal).

I have worked closely with many social landlords and local authorities for nearly 20 years and, as such, I have an in - depth knowledge and understanding of the pressures and concerns facing landlords in increasingly competitive and difficult times.

In R (on the application of Weaver) v London and Quadrant Housing Trust, the court held that some registered social landlords (RSLs) will now be treated as public authorities and therefore be subject to the HRA 1998.

These obligations apply equally to social landlords as well as private landlords and the responsibility for any failure to comply with this, falls squarely at the landlord's feet.

Could there be a mutual meeting of minds where landlords and tenants may try to impose energy obligations on each other by way of «green leases»; where tenants might want their landlord to run the building in as energy efficient a manner as possible in line with their corporate and social responsibility reporting?

In reaching this decision the following were considered to be decisive factors: (i) LQHT was permeated with state control and influence with a view to meeting the government's aims for aff ordable housing; (ii) the nature and extent of the public subsidy of LQHT's activities; (iii) 10 % of LQHT's stock had been transferred to it from the public sector; (iv) that LQHT, as a registered social landlord, was obliged to cooperate with the local authority, if requested, in offering accommodation to people with priority under the authority's allocation scheme; (v) the termination of a tenancy could not be regarded as separate from housing management so as to be considered an act of a private nature.

This is a perspective in which personal circumstances tend to be championed over wider interests, tenants are seen as vulnerable rather than as robust and resourceful, and social landlords are viewed with distrust.

If you're renting a property from a social landlord, you might be able to end your tenancy early, but seek advice as you might be giving up valuable housing rights.

I would stay within my scope of practice as a landlord by providing resources, but it is not the landlords job for charity or social problem solving.

As a landlord it seems is it only your responsibility to provide a place to live, when it comes to social and legal issues between your tenants that is their issue.

The basic problem of screening criminals on a case by case scenario is that you are then acting as a social worker not a landlord.

Maybe as landlords we can work to partner with some of these social service agencies to ensure not only are we getting paid but we are not contributing to a homeless population.

And it gives renters a more secure way to authorize access to their credit and criminal history because there's no need to provide landlords with personal identifying information such as social security and account numbers.

We protect most of your personal information as a renter, and your social security number doesn't get passed on to your new potential landlord.

As long as you're doing a thorough screening, (social media, calling references, employers, and previous landlords) with a good open - ended script with the right questions, you should be good with those Sec 8 applicantAs long as you're doing a thorough screening, (social media, calling references, employers, and previous landlords) with a good open - ended script with the right questions, you should be good with those Sec 8 applicantas you're doing a thorough screening, (social media, calling references, employers, and previous landlords) with a good open - ended script with the right questions, you should be good with those Sec 8 applicants.

Renters who use SmartMove submit their personal information directly to TransUnion online, without having to provide sensitive information (such as a social security number) to the landlord.