I was delighted to read a report that a campaign is being launched to help tenants who get evicted through no fault of their own, because their buy-to-let landlords have not kept up their mortgage payments. You can read more about it on the Citizens Advice Bureau site here.
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Tenants – the forgotten victims of repossession
Responsible Renting – have your say
I have already mentioned in previous posts that the Law Commission are undertaking a massive review of housing law and practice. This started with their Renting Homes project, now completed, and continued with their project on Proportionate Dispute Resolution. The final stage is the project on Encouraging Responsible Letting.
Both the dispute resolution and [...]
Housing more important now
An interesting snippet from the afternoon press briefing from No 10 for 28 June:
“On the role of the Minister for Housing, whilst the breadth of her responsibilities would stay the same, clearly the fact that she was in Cabinet sent a very clear message about the much greater importance of the Housing Minister and the [...]
The tenant’s dilemma
The tenant’s dilemma, a new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau, states that tenants are put off complaining about their landlords failure to keep their property in proper repair because their landlord might retaliate by evicting them under the section 21 ‘loophole’. Government figures indicate, they say, that nearly one million private rented homes [...]
Which UK law is most in need of reform?
There is an interesting article in The Times online today, where members of their law panel nominate the area of law they consider to be most in need of reform.
I like the answer given by Professor Adrian Briggs, who suggests that law which affects ordinary people should be written in a language which is easy [...]
Another unfair decision against a landlord
I did an advice today for a lady who had brought proceedings for possession (acting in person) on the basis of over £12,000 in arrears of rent. However the Judge put back the date for possession for over seven weeks (during which periode of time it is virtually certain that the tenant will [...]
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Responsible Renting – the final report
After having got back from holiday, settled back in, and dealt with the back log, etc, I have finally got around to reading what is the final report from the Law Commission on their housing projects.
The new legal team on Nearly Legal got in ahead of me with a rather depressing report, taking the view [...]
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