Sentences with phrase «of social housing tenants»

Kerry Bretherton QC of Tanfield Chambers Has a long - standing reputation for public law and real estate litigation, and regularly acts on behalf of social housing tenants and homeless applicants.

And his introduction of the hated bedroom tax in 2013 hit hundreds of thousands of social housing tenants — many disabled.

Our recent research conducted by the Human City Institute investigated the social and economic costs of social housing tenants who want to move but can't.

The lack of supply of affordable homes has a detrimental impact on the mobility of social housing tenants - many languish on transfer lists for more than two years.

Although the aims of the campaigns vary, the one thing they have in common is a fight against councils or housing associations to protect the homes and rights of social housing tenants.

The Department for Communities and Local Government said 90 % of social housing tenants would be unaffected by the policy.

Not exact matches

According to a report from Toronto - based social policy group the Wellesley Institute, «rooming houses are one of the most affordable private - market housing options for low - income tenants....

They voted to review the bedroom tax and scrap its use against social housing tenants who didn't have an offer of a smaller property.

You only need to look at how hard many social housing tenants in London have fought to keep their homes to know that isn't a true representation of most areas.

«Right to Buy landlords» include not only local housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public bodies.

What's much harder to fix is the attitudes towards social housing tenants that exist within local authorities and the chronic lack of housing available to those in need.

Over a third of adults who live in social housing are aged 55 or older but it's no surprise that recent Ipsos Mori data places perceptions of social tenants as young and unemployed.

Social housing tenants are still being turfed out of London boroughs, so what will really change?

It's vital that all these people are provided with permanent decent housing - that this still hasn't happened is a national disgrace - but it is also vital that attitudes towards all social housing tenants and those in need of housing changes.

Aside from the social aspects the tax fails on practicability because in most areas there is a shortage of affordable rented housing to which tenants could downsize.

It results in social housing tenants losing 14 % of their housing benefit for one spare room; and losing 25 % of their housing benefit if they have two or more spare rooms.

The launch comes on the same day as the extension of the right - to - buy discount for social housing tenants.

OMH will also provide debt service payments on a portion of the permanent loan and will provide $ 857,800 in annual funding for on - site social services for the Supportive Housing tenants.

Hated perhaps by unemployed social housing tenants in receipt of housing benefit.

Whether it's the young mothers who formed the Focus E15 campaign in Newham to protest against local families being shipped out of the area, or the residents of Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth who have fought tirelessly to stop the demolition of their much loved homes, social housing tenants across the capital have been speaking out about the desperate situations they've found themselves in.

In the days and weeks after the Grenfell Tower fire, politicians and commentators repeatedly spoke of the need to start listening to social housing tenants.

Social housing tenants of working age will have their benefits reduced if they have a spare bedroom.

They include a reduction of benefit for social housing tenants of working age with spare bedrooms.

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to give social housing tenants the chance to move to other parts of the country.

Mr George said he had moved «moderate» measures to exclude social housing tenants from the policy until they receive a «reasonable offer» of alternative accommodation with the «correct number of bedrooms».

Whereas Labour have curtailed the right of social tenants to own their homes, we need to open up the housing market to the many, not just the few, by making it easier for social tenants to own or part - own their property.

The removal of the spare - room subsidy has meant a reduction in benefits to social housing tenants with homes deemed larger than necessary.

With over a quarter of a million tenants living in overcrowded homes and 2 million on housing waiting lists, we need to end the spare room subsidy and ensure a better use of social housing.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide funding through its Continuum of Care Program for onsite social services and rental subsidies for tenants in supportive housingHousing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide funding through its Continuum of Care Program for onsite social services and rental subsidies for tenants in supportive housinghousing units.

While the DWP argues that social housing tenants who want to downsize could instead spend their housing benefit on private accommodation, there is already a major shortage of small, cheap private accommodation.

The building on the far left may be one of the blocks reserved for social housing tenants (Lucy Pasha - Robinson / Independent)

The statistics emerged ahead of a raft of controversial changes to the benefits system which will come into force this week - including the «bedroom tax» which sees council and social housing tenants facing reductions to their benefits if they have empty rooms in their homes.

Chancellor George Osborne looks set to cut the amount of social housing cash available to council and housing association tenants, according to reports.

Whereas in 1975 more than 80 % of housing subsidies were supply - side subsidies intended to promote the construction of social homes, by 2000 more than 85 % of housing subsidies were on the demand side aimed at helping individual tenants pay the required rent.

The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.

He announced changes to the social housing system: for existing social tenants, rent levels will remain unchanged, but new tenants will be offered intermediate rents at around 80 % of the market rent.

See also minutes of a 1970 meeting of the Woodside Housing Tenant Council, in which middle - class tenants objected to the declining social class of new residents, and unsuccessfully beseeched the Housing Authority to reinstitute home visits to applicants.

Numerous violations were cited of the sale agreement & the Social Charter protecting the rights of tenants, regulating among other things rent, repairs & maintenance requirements, and the tenant's right to their housing.

Home Assistance Program: The home assistance program provides eligible Ontario homeowners, tenants and social and / or assisted housing providers with a detailed in - home energy assessment, installation of energy - saving measures and advice.

Our Social Housing solicitors act mostly for tenants in respect of housing diHousing solicitors act mostly for tenants in respect of housing dihousing disputes.

By way of conclusion, I wish to make a different point — that the regulation of shared ownership itself has been weighted in favour of the provider and to give comfort to the mortgage lender at the expense of, and with little thought given to, the buyer; this is, of course, contrary to the general thrust of social housing regulation which places tenants as co-regulators.

The tragedy has highlighted the divisions in society and raised many questions including issues as to: access to justice and legal funding, as the tenants were unable to obtain legal aid for advice due to the legal aid cuts; the legal protection of tenants both in private and social housing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authohousing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authoHousing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authoHousing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authohousing stock by local authorities.

In Weaver v London and Quadrant HA Ltd [2009] 4 All ER 865, [2009] HLR 40, at [80], Elias LJ felt that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in that case — that acts of management were functions of a public nature — extended to all tenants of the trust who are in social housing where the properties were acquired as a result of state grants.

Council tenants with a record of five years» good behaviour would be offered a 10 % equity share in their social rented property, which could then be cashed in when they wanted to move up the housing ladder.

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.

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Please note that this requirement does not apply to registered providers of social housing or if a landlord has already provided the tenant with an up to date version of the booklet under an earlier tenancy.

The social housing (tenant) team at Osbornes which entered the directory in 2011, going straight to band two has retained this listing and is described as «a quality practice which is praised for its sensitive and respectful approach to vulnerable clients» Singled out in the directory is head of department Shilpa Mathuradas and specialist housing solicitors William Ford and Ruth Camp, both of whom are praised for being «deeply committed to their clients».

Mitchell v. Glasgow City Council2009 SC (HL) 24; [2009] 1 AC 874; [2009] 2 WLR 481 House of Lords; Negligence at Common law - whether social landlord owed a duty to protect one of its tenants from assault at the hands of another tenant; Article 2 ECHR - duty to give warning.

Particularly in the context of social housing, such «tenants» may be permitted to remain — either by order of the court or by the forbearance of their landlord — for considerable periods of time after that; in some cases many years.