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A community housing association in Wales has been fined £30,000 after it failed to effectively manage its employees’ exposure to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) over a prolonged period of time. Following the company’s introduction of health surveillance in May... View Article

Mergers in the social housing sector continued with several completed deals being announced in different parts of the country, as the drive for efficiency savings and bigger volumes to deliver new development work persists. In East Anglia, Cambridge based King... View Article

A record six-figure fine has been imposed on a Birmingham landlord after the city council discovered well over 30 fire safety issues in four properties she let as houses of multiple occupation. Lelia Amjadi, of Sutton Coldfield, was ordered by... View Article

Liverpool City Council has told landlords to stop converting family homes into student accommodation in part of the city, unless they obtain specific permission to do so after complaints from residents about anti-social behaviour. The council’s cabinet has approved plans... View Article

The Residential Landlords Association has asked the Government to reconsider the way landlords are taxed after a report from the Resolution Foundation claimed 16 per cent of young people will never own their own home. Responding to the report RLA... View Article

The majority of local councils in England are struggling to find stable housing for homeless people in their area, leaving them forced to place more and more people in unstable temporary accommodation. A new report from the charities Crisis and... View Article

At least 78 homeless people have died on the streets and in temporary accommodation this winter – equivalent to more than two deaths a week and more than the number who died in the Grenfell Tower fire, which has dominated... View Article

A Bristol family was forced to share a single hotel room for more than three years because of failures in the council’s homelessness system, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found. The family was evicted from their private tenancy... View Article

An influential Select Committee has called for private sector tenants to be safeguarded from retaliatory evictions, rent increases and harassment from their landlords. It also wants councils to be given extra powers to takeover properties from rogue landlords. MPs on... View Article

Residents of a private high-rise block in Croydon clad in similar panels to Grenfell Tower have been told they will not have to pay £2million to make their homes safe. Barratt Homes who built the Citiscape block has said it... View Article

The new Housing Secretary is James Brokenshire MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, situated between south east London and Kent. He replaces Sajid Javid who moved to the Home Office after almost two years in charge of the housing brief.... View Article

A leaked report into the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire has revealed the shocking findings that all 72 deaths could have been prevented, as a catalogue of errors were made in the block’s refurbishment project. The report will inevitably... View Article