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Social housing tenants can end up struggling with their finances for many reasons, from getting into debt or seeing their benefits cut. A major challenge faced by low-income tenants is managing money effectively to keep on top of monthly financial...
Tenants may face longer waits for repair works to be completed to furnishings and fittings by their landlords as a consequence of new tax rules coming into force later this year. A recent study has revealed that almost a third of landlords have...
A tenant has narrowly avoided being evicted from her council property for anti-social behaviour. Sheffield City Council started Court proceedings against the tenant due to her repeatedly causing a nuisance to her neighbours by threatening them and even at...
A woman from West Oxfordshire has been prosecuted by the criminal courts for falsely obtaining a social housing property. The woman was convicted of false representation on 05 January 2016 after she had failed to disclose in her application to West...
Thousands of tenants who rent from a private landlord face eviction at short notice when their homes are repossessed by their landlord’s mortgage company. Recent statistics published by the Citizens Advice Bureau show that up to 6,800 tenants are...
Some Local Authorities in London have recently introduced the Public Spaces Protection Order (‘PSPO’) which is designed to deter antisocial activity. This allows authorities to ban and regulate certain activities in some public places. The Local...
With the media’s portrayal of the cuts to Legal Aid you could be forgiven for thinking that Legal Aid no longer exists, however this is not the case. Housing law is an area of law in which Legal Aid is still available for specific types of cases. The...
There are a number of types of notice your landlord may issue you with, the most important thing is not to panic. You should always seek independent legal advice straight away if you are served with any type of notice. The main type of notice that you...
When a landlord evicts a tenant, for asking for repairs to be completed at their property, this is known as retaliatory eviction. Although many landlords are keen to keep their properties in good repair a few either don’t want to or cannot afford the...
Statistics show that 42 per cent of possession orders made in the first quarter of the year were suspended. That means that a court was convinced to give the tenant an opportunity to prove they could turn the situation around. In our experience...
