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Changes to councils’ housing waiting lists brought in since new legislation in 2012 are leaving people trapped “in a cycle of homelessness”, a housing charity has warned
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Crisis claims the Localism Act 2012 is responsible for one in five homeless people being unable to move out of emergency accommodation into social housing, the BBC reports this morning.
The act gave councils new powers to require people to have a local connection to an area in order to access social housing.
Since it came into force, local authorities have slashed their waiting lists by 700,000 households.
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, was interviewed by The Guardian yesterday about his views on new laws coming in to reduce homelessness.
In other news, Labour is proposing giving tenants the right to keep a pet as part of a raft of new animal welfare policies revealed today.
According to a policy document, if elected the party would consult “with landlords and tenants on the ability for tenants to keep pets as default unless there is evidence that the animal is causing a nuisance”, according to the Huffington Post.
It comes as new research from Shelter finds couples are being put off having children by the housing market, also reported by the Huffington Post.
The number of millennial couples renting privately has increased 115% in the past 10 years, the charity found, with 38% of those saying it is preventing them from starting a family.
And finally, Aditya Chakrabortty has published a piece for The Guardian about a group of Liverpool residents who carried out their own grassroots regeneration of their area.
On social media
I’ve made it my personal mission to fix our broken housing market - figures today show the number of first-time buyers has reached an 11-year high. We must do more, but initiatives like Help to Buy and cutting stamp duty for many are truly helping more people own their own home. pic.twitter.com/6fL4lEJk7T
— Theresa May (@theresa_may)I've made it my personal mission to fix our broken housing market - figures today show the number of first-time buyers has reached an 11-year high. We must do more, but initiatives like Help to Buy and cutting stamp duty for many are truly helping more people own their own home. pic.twitter.com/6fL4lEJk7T
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) February 13, 2018