Universal Credit the Private Rented Sector and a Sense of Groundhog Day
Summary: The government’s plan to normally pay the Local Housing Allowance part of the planned Universal Credit to tenants (not to landlords) reminds us of the film “Groundhog Day”. Haven’t we been...
View ArticleLocal Housing Allowance and More Changes to Policy
David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com explains the “work arounds” and the sleights of hand involved in the latest changes in Local Housing Allowance funding. The government has just voted to cap...
View ArticleMortgage Loans and Housing Benefit and Why a Selective Approach is the Better...
David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com observes the latest mortgage lender U turn on allowing landlords to let to housing benefit tenants, but says that rather than a “blanket” approach of either...
View ArticleAbout Turn on Universal Credit Payments is Coming
David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com says that among the mandarins at the DWP, the penny may be finally dropping about Universal Credit Housing Benefit payments. Here, he proposes a more sensible...
View ArticleImmigration, Housing Benefits and Private Landlords
It seems the media are finally having a proper and mature debate about immigration – even the BBC is now doing it, without fearing that by even questioning the extent of immigration the dear BEEB could...
View ArticlePrivate Rented Sector Quoted in the Media
Recent press comments from me on the private rented sector….. On the policies of successive governments towards the private rented sector: “….Too often policy is confused and contradictory and too...
View ArticleUniversal Credit Not Working Well in Private Rented Sector
Universal Credit Not Working ALMOST two-thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced them going into rent arrears according to new research by the Residential...
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