ARCH has responded to the DLUHC consultation on reform of social housing allocations policy, which closed on 26 March. It argues that the proposed reforms are unnecessary, will have little impact on who is housed in council housing, and are no substitute for...
DWP has published a detailed guide to the arrangements for the migration of customers receiving legacy benefits to Universal Credit, which will affect most recipients of legacy benefits this year. They will each receive a Migration Notice informing them that...
Housing Ombudsman consults on Good Practice guidance On 26 March the Housing Ombudsman published a consultation paper on its future approach to publication of Good Practice Guidance. The consultation paper proposes some principles that will guide the...
On 3 April, DLUHC issued a press release announcing that the new regulatory regime for social housing had come into force on 1 April and included much of the same information as the Regulator's letter reported in the previous item. However, the release also...
The new regulatory regime for social housing went live on 1 April. To remind any landlord that might have forgotten, the Regulator of Social Housing wrote to local authority and housing association chief executives on 2 April to confirm that the four new...
Anyone searching the internet for 'Housing Ombudsman' to read the consultation on its business plan will notice that the Housing Ombudsman's official website is not the top hit. The top two or three sites - some of which misleadingly include the words "Housing...
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