Tag: Homelessness
Minister rejects claims of mounting rent arrears, homelessness and struggling courts
Housing Minister Lord Greenhalgh has roundly dismissed fears about rising rent debt, homelessness and an overwhelmed court system.
During...
LATEST: Councils ask ministers to tackle rent arrears as evictions ban...
London boroughs have warned of an imminent summer wave of homelessness in the capital as the end of the evictions ban looms.
Charity asks public to donate £10 to help ‘depressed and anxious’...
Housing charity Shelter has launched a fund raising campaign to help it deal with struggling renters as research shows one in four...
18,000 illegal evictions by landlords during Covid despite ban, says report
A nationwide ban on evictions hasn’t prevented about 18,000 households across England being made legally homeless during the pandemic, according to a...
Government pumps £105m into helping homeless move into privately rented sector
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick is to offer an additional £105 million to help homeless people move into private rental market homes as...
Can’t rent out your property? We’ll pay you if you help...
A large local authority in Cumbria is calling on landlords who own empty properties they can't rent out during the Coronavirus...
Call for empty homes to be used by squatters.
Squatters:
Guardian writer and London School of Economics (LSE) sociology fellow, Lisa Mckenzie, is calling for the homeless to take direct action, where the dispossessed...