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Housing Matters
Housing Matters is a regular publication featuring housing and homelessness articles and commentary, case law updates and key legal issues. Housing practitioners contribute to Housing Matters, sharing their own advice and experience.
Our articles are classified by subject
They are correct at the date of publication.
Housing options
- Allocations: avoiding unlawful decisions - February 2020
- How to support families with no recourse to public funds - June 2019
- Time to go home: discharge of hospital patients - October 2018
- Housing advice and services for LGBT+ - June 2017
- Estate regeneration - June 2017
- Housing options for offenders - April 2017
- Equality duty - April 2017
- Promoting sharing - February 2017
- Care leavers 18+ - December 2016
- Right to unwind - August 2016
- Allocation schemes and unlawful discrimination - August 2016
- A right to rent - April 2016
- Moving on after domestic abuse - February 2016
- Women's refuges - August 2015
- Introduction to the Care Act 2014 - April 2015
Homelessness
- Vulnerability and priority need - July 2021
- Homelessness rights of family members of EEA nationals after Brexit - July 2021
- How to prove EU settled status guide - updated July 2021
- EEA Nationals' homelessness rights after Brexit - June 2021
- Supporting EEA nationals: resources round up - April 2021
- The relief duty: getting it right - June 2020
- Mental capacity and homeless applications - June 2020
- Powers to accommodate homeless people with no recourse to public funds: case brief - April 2021
- Cross-border referrals - October 2019
- Intentionality and accommodation duties - August 2019
- Co-operation between authorities - April 2019
- Interim accommodation after the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 - August 2018
- Decisions, decisions: timing in homelessness decisions - June 2018
- Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: flowchart - February 2018
- Local connection and the relief duty - February 2018
- A matter of significance: vulnerability and priority need - December 2017
- Awareness of a relevant fact: case brief - October 2017
- Assessing housing need: non-priority homelessness - August 2016
- Out of area placements: local authority good practice - June 2016
- Escaping the mark of intentional homelessness - August 2015
- Determining vulnerability: case brief - June 2015
- Out of area offers: case brief - June 2015
- Keeping homeless families together - February 2015
Housing conditions
- Electrical safety in the private rented sector - August 2020
- Hoarding and housing - April 2019
- Fitness for habitation - April 2019
- Rogue landlord database - April 2018
- Repairs to common parts - October 2016
- Tackling disrepair and rogue elements in the private rented sector - December 2015
- The PRS and local authorities: improving the relationship - December 2015
Renting
- Staying in the home when a joint tenant leaves - August 2021
- Ending a joint tenancy when a tenant leaves - July 2021
- Letting agents: servants of two masters - February 2019
- Surrendering a tenancy - October 2017
- Services family accommodation - August 2017
- Tenant's notice to quit - August 2017
- Mobile homes - February 2017
- Non-statutory succession - February 2017
- Joint tenancies - June 2016
- Students: problems with private renting - October 2015
- Excluded occupiers - February 2015
Costs of renting
Home ownership
- Orders for sale - February 2020
- Charging orders: types of home ownership - October 2019
- Charging orders: an overview - October 2019
- Leasehold service charges - December 2017
- Understanding residential leases - October 2017
- End of term: interest only mortgages - August 2016
- Support for mortgage interest: a longer wait - April 2016
Possession and eviction
- When landlords cannot use section 21 notices - September 2021
- Section 21 notices: getting the dates right - June 2021
- Breathing space: arrears and eviction - May 2021
- Breathing space and housing: resources round up - May 2021
- Insolvency and rent arrears - February 2021
- Illegal eviction - December 2020
- Breaking starter Assured Shorthold Tenancies: Case brief - December 2019
- Section 21 defences from 1 October 2018 - December 2018
- Notice is served - August 2018
- Right to rent: eviction - December 2016
- Enforcing suspended possession orders - December 2016
- High Court enforcement - February 2016
- Harassment and illegal eviction: a formal approach - December 2015
- Section 21 notices and the Deregulation Act 2015 - October 2015
- The end of retaliatory eviction? - October 2015
- Pre-action protocol for social landlords - August 2015
- Disability discrimination defences to possession - June 2015
Court action and complaints
Practical guidance
Benefits
Monthly legal round up
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