I have recently come across an interesting report, published by the Smith Institute called ‘The end of the affair – implications of declining home ownership’, written by Andrew Heywood. The report considers what seems to be a permanent trend – the decline in home ownership in this country. Together with the worrying fact that this…
[Ben Reeve Lewis to his surprise, finds a few good things in the Localism Bill ... ] I’m looking into my crystal ball this week. Despite being called ‘Landlord Law Blog’ I know that Tessa’s readers aren’t just landlords. It is read by tenants, lawyers, housing advisers, estate agents, homeless teams and a whole host of…
The post looks at a report on past Law Commission projects and says whether they will be implemented or not. It looks as if the big housing projects carried out a few years ago are being thrown on the scrap heap …
The Tiensia case more or less put a coach and horses through the tenancy deposit regulations. In fact when I spoke at a Landlords Association meeting recently, one of the things I was asked to speak about was the ‘new’ tenancy deposit rules. “Is it now necessary to lodge them or can you hold them…
Law is confusing I get very annoyed sometimes about the state of our legislation. It gets more and more difficult to find out what a law actually says, or what you are supposed to do to comply with it. Most laws now start off with a general Act setting out what is intended. Then various…
The problem Reading the press this weekend we learn that Boris Johnson has likened it to “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in the capital and has vowed to resist it. An analysis prepared for him predicts a “50% increase in homelessness acceptances in the first year of the changes”. Labour MP Chris Bryant talks about the poor…
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Housing benefit reforms, the Pickles letter and the Voldemort connection
I don’t think I can really let the revelation in the Observer yesterday of the Pickles letter regarding the likley outcome of the Housing Benefit reforms go without at least some comment. Ministry of Magic speak Fiction is often a frightening reflection of reality and I think there is a lot of similarity between the…