The Decent Homes Standard (DHS) has “allowed lethargy to
creep into asset management” and needs more than a review to rule on its future
fitness for purpose, sector leaders say. A roundtable of leading housing
association and local authority landlords came to a clear consensus on the need
for sector-led action that shifts DHS away from an asset investment approach
around life-cycle replacement. To those at the table this was “cop out” that
the wider sector needed to wake up to ahead of the government acting on Green
Paper responses to a DHS last updated in 2006 and now “failing” to meet the
demands of modern-day living. Read more on 24housing.
England’s housing courts at breaking point as renters battle no-fault
evictions
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Courts said to be ‘overloaded’ as landlords sell properties and tenants
with nowhere to go try to delay evictions
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