Housing associations, in particular Riverside Housing Association, will have been popping champagne corks recently, to celebrate the result of the recent House of Lords decision in the case of Riverside Housing Association v. White. In this case Mr and Mrs White, who were being evicted by their landlords, Riverside, sought to claim that they were…
A recent report published by the Smith Institute (a ‘think tank’) covered in an article in The Times today (4 July) indicates that research has shown that social housing is a bad thing and that it is sustaining rather than reducing dependency and poverty. “A social housing tenancy should no longer be regarded as a…
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Dealing with the empties
It looks as if some Councils at least are using the new Empty Dwelling Management Orders which came into force last year. I am delighted to see that my own local authority of Norwich seem to be in the van here, as reported in the Evening News, and their own web-site. However it seems that…