A shortage of private rented sector housing is putting pressure on living standards, according to a new report
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May 14
EXCLUSIVE: Housing applications and homeless records left unsecure secret Stoke Council report finds
Medical, financial and other personal information of homeless and housing applicants were found lying on desktops and in unlock rooms a secret internal audit report has found at Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
The report, written in November 2012, found a catalog of security and policy breaches in the city council housing allocations section
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Sep 17
The housing benefits cap means a wretched life for thousands in B&Bs
Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reform will leave families already on the lowest housing rung with nowhere to go
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Sep 12
Predistribution: an unsnappy name for an inspiring idea
How far down the line of engineering markets to create fairer outcomes will Ed Miliband go? It could make him enemies
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Aug 22
Daring housing scheme offers affordable homes for local people who can’t get a mortgage
An innovative housing programme which will see empty homes renovated and brought back into use is expected to be rolled out across Stoke-on-Trent following city council cabinet approval later this month. The £3m scheme, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, will see a cluster of 35 council owned empty homes …
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Aug 21
Bedroom tax, the law and what it may mean for council’s like Stoke
The coalition government plans to introduce what is being dubbed the “bedroom tax” by April 2013 could have far reaching consequences; not just for the poor tenant but also for local authorities like Stoke already struggling with housing need and homelessness and the resources to manage the issue. The bedroom tax introduces higher cost for …
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Nov 13
Vulnerable homeless people face an astonishing shift in housing policy
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by eJay
November 13, 2012
Councils will now be considered to have fulfilled their duty to homeless people by helping them rent from private landlords
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