Tag: Housing benefit

Bizarre Housing Benefit scenario – is this legal?
Some parents I know recently purchased a 3 bed detached bungalow for their severely disabled daughter to live in, and due to the need...

PRS crisis deepens as landlords sell – NRLA
A critical housing shortage is impacting renters across England and Wales, with research revealing a widening gap between supply and...

Criminal landlords will lose benefit payments under Labou...
England’s criminal landlords will face restrictions on benefit payments they receive for running substandard properties in supported...

Rent caps and housing tribunals demanded to protect tenan...
Up to one million children in the PRS could face poverty by 2026 because of a rent shortfall due to frozen Local Housing Allowance...

Landlords selling up is fuelling the UK’s housing c...
A Parliamentary report has underlined the critical connection between inadequate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and the mounting...

Homelessness bill is pushing London’s councils R...
London Councils is warning that rocketing homelessness in the capital is ‘pushing boroughs to the brink’, with unsustainable...

Renters’ Rights Bill risks excluding vulnerable ten...
Landlords, letting agents and build-to-rent providers have warned that the government’s Renters’ Rights Bill could make...