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House hopes everyone had a merry Christmas.
Just a quick reminder that if it’s predicated to be below zero for three nights running then in order to avoid the potentially politically damaging problem of people having to step over dead bodies on the way the work the Severe Weather Emergency Provisions mean that the Local Authority should give [...]

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Happy Christmas

House wishes everyone a Happy Christmas and New Year.
The LSC wishes the same and says so HERE

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Occupation Orders, arggg

Arggg House hates occupation orders. Housing solicitors can’t do them (or at least that’s what they tell House) and Family Solicitor don’t seem to want to do them either as they think it’s a Housing issue.
Argg.

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Naughty agent

House recently helped a colleague at the County Court help Desk scheme that House’s organisation runs.
Whilst time is often rather short, House was looking through a tenancy agreement for a tenant who had been served with a section 21 notice. The Tenancy agreement stated that the deposit had been protected with the TDS and as it [...]

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£100

House is tired of advising the homeless people with low incomes who have no priority need for accommodation.
Sometimes Foyers will help young people, some hostels might temporarily help others. Rent deposit schemes might help a few (even fewer as many LA’s will only offer them to those who have a Priority Need, figure that one out!) if you are lucky enough [...]

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The Homelessness charity Shelter is asking people to sign an e-petition regarding our rather outdated overcrowding laws. Please sign up HERE.
Whilst House thinks the law on overcrowding won’t change it certainly won’t if one doesn’t try!
 

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More shortsightedness

Thanks to the LAG blog, House, being a fan of prevention rather than punishment, found THIS video very interesting.

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Inside Housing article

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 [...]

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Television eviction shockers

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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