Inside Housing is often worth a little visit. House found this article quite interesting. A quick Google reveals (item 3) the discussion around the impact of G v Southwark.
House doesn’t have much to do with Social Services in London but from House’s experience of Social Services in House’s area one wonders how Mark Scott comes [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Inside Housing article
Posted in Random stuff on October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Television eviction shockers
Posted in Random stuff on October 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
House admits that linking the editorial comment in this months LAG regarding the recent plenet report ‘Measuring young people’s legal capability‘ and Channel 4’s Hollyoaks might seem a bit odd.
House happened to watch last Friday’s episode, the 16th Oct, (don’t hate House) and rather oddly got angry at one of the storylines which involved a family who [...]
Deposit protection and cashflows!
Posted in Random stuff on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Again just a quicky as it was only mentioned briefly by a Letting Agent who was talking to House. Said Agent stated that a few small Letting Agents had been put out of business due to the fact they used to rely on the fact they held the tenant’s deposits and this assisted them greatly [...]
Local Housing Allowance Calculator
Posted in Random stuff on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a House quicky, THIS LHA calculator is rather handy. Enjoy!
Link added to.
Involuntary Euthanasia?
Posted in Random stuff on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House forgot to watch Masterchef and ended up watching a rather depressing Panorama. One doesn’t know whether to feel sorry for the probably ill educated, badly raised, bored, drunk persons featured in the show or whether to think that as they are consciously choosing to be twats they would be better off euthanized.
Haunted! By a case!
Posted in Law stuff, Random stuff on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House wonders if anyone else has a housing related case that haunts them?! It might be a case where you now wish you did something differently or a case where the Judge ordered something that left you bewildered and perplexed.
House has case from the latter category that still occasionally pops up its ugly head to [...]
Shelter – A new CEO
Posted in Random stuff on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shelter has a new CEO in the form of Campbell Robb who takes over from 1st January 2010.
It will be interesting to see how he leads the Charity that has had to restructure (ie get people to do more for less) as a result of its love affair with the LSC.
One fears the continuing squeeze [...]
Myth or Fact is Paul Flynn MP a muppet?
Posted in Random stuff on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A very interesting post from Smoking gun. Whilst admittedly a little dated I was similarly startled by Mr Flynn’s statements which, apparent from the complete lack of detail, seem to be based on no actual research into the subject of homelessness at all.
I have therefore emailed him enquiring as to what charities he was referring to [...]
Gatekeeping – Common Local Authority Boll**ks
Posted in Gatekeeping on October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
‘You would expect Local Authority professionals to tell you the truth’ says a Youth Support worker endeavouring to help homeless 16 year old.
‘Well yes, you would in theory’ House replies with a sinking heart as House prepares to enlighten said innocent worker to the joys of Local Authority bad practice (or misfeasance perhaps in some [...]
Belgium lead the way in tackling homelessness
Posted in Random stuff on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another sign that the world is doomed has come from Belgium where it appears that thousands of years of evolution has created a society where a female can enter a competition to win basic shelter for a year.
Coming to the UK soon, undoubtedly.
