Alarm at overcrowded Somali community

Fed warns bedroom tax vote will increase poverty

The government’s rejection of proposals to protect vulnerable people from the bedroom tax risks pushing thousands of families in social housing into poverty, it has been warned.

Trapped in their own home

Delays to home adaptations are leaving older and disabled tenants living in unsuitable and often degrading conditions for years at a time. So is the disabled facilities grant failing vulnerable people? Martin Hilditch investigates.

Migrating to Margate

Report questions legality of household benefit cap

The government may have broken equality laws when introducing the total household benefits cap, according to watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Council holds summit to tackle underoccupation

A council has launched an operation to try to reduce the number of residents on its waiting list by tackling the issue of underoccupied homes.

Going spare

The government’s contentious ‘bedroom tax’ on under-occupying tenants is set to become law this month. Alex Turner looks at the disproportionate effect it’s likely to have in the north

New criteria

A Court of Appeal ruling has defined what constitutes sheltered accommodation, says Robert Wassall

A compassionate ruling

The High Court relied on human rights legislation to overturn a decision on end-of-life care. David Renton, barrister at Garden Court Chambers, explains

On top of the world

Tower blocks are not typically home to extra care schemes. But Helen Clifton finds out how one arm’s-length management organisation is giving older residents a room with a view

The order of importance

The Localism Act allows councils to decide who they allocate homes to, but beware of discrimination, warns Samantha Hall, senior associate at Trowers & Hamlins