A man from Barking and Dagenham has been sentenced for housing fraud after being found guilty of “deliberately misleading” council officers in an application to acquire his 3-bed council property under the Right to Buy Scheme.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has called for a fundamental overhaul of temporary accommodation in England, which it says is in crisis and is leaving record high numbers of children without a permanent home.

A claimant has lost his application for judicial review in which he argued that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea acted irrationally in refusing him a review of the suitability of a property he was offered.

All fire functions have been transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from the beginning of this month, the Government has announced.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has agreed to provide training or guidance to all of its housing staff on the changes introduced by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 as well as the requirements of chapter 21 of the Homelessness Code of Guidance on domestic abuse, following an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Major social landlord the Guinness Partnership has named nine firms to a legal services framework agreement estimated to be worth £9.3m over four years.

A Senior Circuit Judge has backed a tenant in a dispute with Bristol City Council over whether her housing disrepair claim should be allocated to the fast track.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a resident over what could be raised in a review request to London Borough of Haringey after she had rejected a property offer as unsuitable.

A property firm has lost a costs application against the London Borough of Lambeth after Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President, said at the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) that, despite finding a combination of legal errors in the costs decision of the First-Tier Tribunal Property Chamber, it was inappropriate for him either to remit the case or remake the decision himself.

A selective licensing scheme due to be implemented in Scunthorpe has been delayed following a legal challenge from local landlords seeking a judicial review of the decision.

Eight years on from Grenfell, the Government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to address, or how long it will take, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said.

The Housing Ombudsman has called on housing providers to make use of safety complaints from residents to catch service failures before they affect a larger number of residents.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has largely backed the Government’s proposed changes in funding arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant, dissenting only over the use of mean rents in the private rented sector as a measure of temporary accommodation costs.

The Court of Appeal this week will hear an appeal by Surrey County Council over a High Court judge’s decision to allow a judicial review claim against the local authority’s refusal to comply with duties said to be owed to the claimant under the Children Act 1989 when he was 17 years old.

Housing associations’ continued focus on development, building safety, energy efficiency and stock decency has resulted in record levels of reinvestment in both new and existing homes, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has reported in its latest annual Value for Money (VFM) metrics.

Tower Hamlets Council has successfully prosecuted two private landlords who rented out their two-bedroom flat to as many as 23 people, when the property was only licensed for three people from two households.

An applicant has lost an attempt to require the London Borough of Lewisham to rehouse him and his family because of anti-social behaviour by neighbours.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a woman cannot take the London Borough of Waltham Forest to judicial review in a dispute over whether the council discharged its main housing duty towards her.

A dispute at the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) over the liability of some tenants of housing association Notting Hill Genesis to pay for certain services has been only partly resolved.

The Government has issued a white paper setting out its plans to ban the sale of new leasehold flats and make commonhold the default tenure in England and Wales.

Ofsted has set out a series of steps for local authorities to take to improve their support for homeless 16- and 17-year-olds, after fewer than one in ten said they had been offered access to an independent advocate to help them understand their rights.

The Government has accepted all 58 recommendations in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report, and will introduce a new single construction regulator “to ensure those responsible for building safety are held to account”.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has released its latest round of regulatory judgements, in which two local authority landlords, West Lancashire Borough Council and City of Westminster Council, received C1 gradings.

The Housing Ombudsman has analysed four common failings of social landlords in a report on inspections and knowledge management within damp and mould complaints.

The Government is to include a ban on ‘cuckooing’ and a standalone offence of child criminal exploitation (CCE) in its Crime and Policing Bill, which is to be introduced in Parliament in the next week.

A review by social housing provider One Housing has discovered more than 800 entries of incorrect asbestos risk data.

The Government has launched a consultation on a licensing scheme for supported housing as well as a new duty on local authorities to produce 'supported housing strategies', as part of a crackdown on “rogue” providers.

A landlord has been ordered to pay £37,000 in fines and costs after he was found to be housing 18 tenants, including children and infants, in a home in Edgware originally built as a three-bedroom linked terrace house.

Manchester City Council can proceed with evictions at a tent encampment in St Peter’s Square, a judge has ruled.

Liberty, Streets Kitchen and the Museum of Homelessness have published a new guide setting out how individuals can appeal a Community Protection Notice (CPNs) if they are issued one.