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05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shelter lobbies politicians with ‘rental plan to end homelessness’](/upload/images/shutterstock_270470528.jpg)
Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![British Homes for British Workers - Experts, activists unite in opposition](/upload/images/shutterstock_1750387934.jpg)
Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Watchdog probes advertising for part-rent part-buy homes](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/balgores%201%20-%20Copy.jpg)
The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes. In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government to blame for high poverty in rental sector, claims lettings body](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Not again! Another charity slams private rental sector over S21](/img/default/lat.png)
Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...
28 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Housing Benefit Row: 'the system is at fault, not the rental sector'](/img/default/lat.png)
The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Shelter told ‘vilifying letting agents won't solve the housing crisis’](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...
23 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Not true! Agents reject claim of discriminating against benefit tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Hidden' Baby Boomers suffering in private rental sector, claims housing group](/img/default/lat.png)
Up to 500,000 so-called Baby Boomers have been hit by allegedly unaffordable rents and a lack of appropriate housing for older...
02 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Industry group comes out fighting over housing benefit claims](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let is big winner from housing benefit surge, says federation](/img/default/lat.png)
The amount of housing benefit going to private landlords has more than doubled in the past decade according to the National...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Big majority for Right To Buy compromise as government response awaited](/img/default/lat.png)
There is reported to be a substantial majority amongst housing associations for the compromise deal over the government's controversial Right To...
06 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![London housing associations backing Right To Buy compromise](/img/default/lat.png)
G15, the largest group of London housing associations, says its members unanimously back a controversial Right to Buy compromise proposal. Under the...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government waters down housing association Right To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
The government is watering down its controversial new Right To Buy policy, by giving housing associations one week to sign up...
25 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Most people back councils' call for jail sentences for rogue landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
An opinion poll's findings, released to back up a call for tougher controls in the private rental sector, suggests 71 per...
24 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![UK private tenants 'get raw deal' with highest rents in Europe - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Private rents in the UK are the highest in Europe despite having amongst the least secure tenancies - that it the...