Tag Archive: Local Housing Allowance

Fast Trak to the rescue for social housing tenants

An interesting article in the January / February issue of Residential Property Investor looks at Fast Trak, a new company tackling the problems of too many social housing tenants, not enough social housing to put them in, and not enough private landlords willing to take a chance on them.
There are a myriad reasons why private [...]

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Great articles in the current issue of Roof – the housing magazine from Shelter

Two years ago I did a review of Roof Magazine on my Landlord Law site, where I said how good it was. I have just finished reading the January / February 2010 issue, and have decided I need to write about it again. It really is excellent, this issue in particular. For [...]

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DWP publishes consultation paper on housing benefit

As mentioned in my last post, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has now published a report and consultation on housing benefit.  The paper sets out the departments thinking on Local Housing Allowance (e.g. direct payment to landlords) and makes interesting reading.
The report starts with a bit of self congratulatory backslapping, for example reporting [...]

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Housing benefit / LHA scheme criticised by Shelter

There have always been criticisms of the new Local Housing Allowance (LHA) scheme, for example see this report here I did in October 2007. Shelter have now issued further criticism of the scheme after surveying “more than 450 LHA claimants” (although perhaps not the most comprehensive survey – 1,000 would have been better). Their findings [...]

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OFT v. Foxtons case – what now?

The Supreme Court decision in the OFT case against the banks has been handed down today, and to the surprise of many it is in favour of the banks rather than the OFT.
This will also impact on the OFT v. Foxtons case, as I understand  Foxtons were waiting for this decision to be published before deciding whether [...]

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LHA direct payment e-petition

After my earlier post giving details of an e-petition against the governments licensing plans, I have now learned of another one here requesting Local Housing Allowance be paid direct to landlords.
Petitions seem to be taking off – it is a shame therefore that the government is no longer supporting them, according to this report on [...]

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NLA calls for changes in housing benefit/local housing allowance rules

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has recently started a campaign to change the rules for the payment of housing benefit/local housing allowance (LHA). As has been described elsewhere in this blog, LHA cannot normally be paid direct to the landlord in the way that housing benefit was. The NLA consider that this [...]

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