Tag: housing crisis

Government hints at forcing social housing landlords to house homeless households

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th April 2026, 5 days ago | 13

The government has hinted that social housing landlords could be required to take council-referred homeless households. In response to a...

Charities urge government to unfreeze LHA rates as homelessness surges

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2026, 2 months ago | 2

Rough sleeping and homelessness figures reach record highs as charities calls for the government to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA)...

Andy Burnham proposes compulsory purchase orders for PRS homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th February 2026, 2 months ago | 29

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has called for compulsory purchase orders for private rented sector (PRS) homes that...

Rents skyrocket in North of England as UK average stabilises

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd January 2026, 3 months ago | 0

Despite rents stabilising across the UK, some areas are seeing prices skyrocket, prompting calls for increased housing supply to tackle...

Government claims progress on meeting 1.5 million homes target

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2026, 3 months ago | 0

The government says it is seeing “green shoots of recovery” in housebuilding and claims it is on track to meet...

Tenant group claims rising rents to blame for homelessness increase

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th January 2026, 3 months ago | 9

A tenant group and a homelessness charity have claimed that unaffordable private rents and a chronic lack of social housing...

Shelter blames rising rents and housing benefit freeze for driving homelessness

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd December 2025, 4 months ago | 18

Shelter claims “unaffordable private rents and the freeze on housing benefit” are pushing more people into temporary accommodation. According to...

Council faces backlash after Right-to-Buy loophole costs millions

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2025, 5 months ago | 5

A council with the biggest social housing waiting list in England has come under fire for buying back ex-council homes...

Homeless charity to become a landlord to combat homelessness

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2025, 5 months ago | 20

Homeless charity Crisis plans to become a landlord to tackle Britain’s housing crisis. The charity says it will begin buying...

Chancellor leaves door open to tax rises in pre-Budget speech amid concerns from the property sector

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th November 2025, 6 months ago | 2

With the Budget only weeks away, Chancellor Rachel Reeves made an unusual choice to deliver a pre-Budget speech. In her...

Landlord slams selective licensing as cause of Nottingham’s homelessness crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th October 2025, 6 months ago | 10

One of Nottingham’s largest landlords has blamed selective licensing for the city’s homelessness crisis. Mick Roberts, who has housed benefit...

Why is the government punishing landlords with long enforced voids?

Author: Readers Question

27th October 2025, 6 months ago | 12

Can anyone else get over the stupidity of forcing landlords to keep properties which fail to sell empty for in...

Only 1% of London rental homes affordable under LHA rates

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd October 2025, 6 months ago | 1

Average rents continue to outpace Local Housing Allowance rates (LHA), pushing families into homelessness, according to a new report. Data...

Government policies harm tenants as small landlords leave

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th October 2025, 6 months ago | 1

“Government policies designed to protect tenants could end up harming exactly the people they are intended to help”, says Conservative...

Tenant group claims landlords selling up is not a bad thing despite housing crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th October 2025, 6 months ago | 6

A tenant group claims landlords selling up won’t be bad for renters, as there’s no evidence of the private rented...

Abolish landlords? Bring it on!

Author: Landlord Crusader

9th October 2025, 6 months ago | 13

Last weekend, Green Party members voted like lemmings to ‘seek the effective abolition of private landlordism’ at their conference in...

London boroughs face soaring homeless costs of over £5 million a day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st October 2025, 7 months ago | 2

London boroughs are spending more than £5 million a day on temporary accommodation to house the homeless. Analysis by London...

Housing Secretary accused of hypocrisy over blocking flats in his own constituency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th September 2025, 7 months ago | 3

Despite the Housing Secretary’s mantra of “build, baby, build,” the Telegraph reveals Steve Reed tried to block a housing development...

National Insurance on rental income is the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd September 2025, 8 months ago | 11

A Labour proposal to apply National Insurance contributions to rental income could be the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for...

Surge in rental scams targeting young tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st September 2025, 8 months ago | 0

Young tenants are being warned about a sharp rise in rent scams with scammers increasingly targeting them amid a growing...