Arden Chambers
Set of barristers' chambers specialising in housing and local government law. The site includes "eflashes", providing immediate responses to recent decisions and other legal developments in the chambers' areas of work, and Housing Insight, an occasional series addressing selected housing issues.
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Department for Communities and Local Government
The Department for Communities and Local Government is a central government department with responsibilites which include regional and local government, planning, building regulations, housing, homelessness, social exclusion, and fire and rescue services. This section of the GOV.UK web site provides access to information on the department's activities, policies, publications and announcements, and to information more widely across the whole government. Specific publications, such as guidance, consultation papers, circulars, statistics and research reports, are best found by conducting a Publications search.
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Devonshires Solicitors
The web site of City law firm Devonshires Solicitors includes a publications section with coverage of a number of topics including Housing Management and Social Housing.
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Garden Court Chambers: Housing Law Bulletin
Produced by a set of barristers' chambers based in Lincoln's Inn Fields, this online bulletin provides a weekly guide to developments in housing law. Bulletins are available from January 2006 onwards.
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Hardwicke
Hardwicke is a set of barristers' chambers in Lincoln's Inn specialising in civil litigation. The site content includes case reports, articles and newsletters on a wide range of topics including commercial law, employment, housing, property, personal injury, clinical negligence and medical malpractice. These may be accessed from the "Insights" tab at the head of the home page.
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Homeless Pages
Homeless Pages is a site providing information about research and publications on homelessness and related issues in the UK. The site is published by Homeless Link, a registered charity which supports organisations and individuals working with homeless people. Information on legislation, with links to texts on the Legislation.gov.uk site, is accessible via either the “Keywords” or the "Tag Cloud" tab.
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Homes & Communities Agency
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), a non-departmental public body, is the national housing and regeneration agency for England. It took over responsibility for the regulation of social housing providers in England from the Tenant Services Authority on 1 April 2012. The site's Regulation section includes details of HCA's objectives and regulatory framework, and a list of all Regulatory Judgments to date, with texts of those selected as appropriate for publication. |
Housing Corporation
Legacy site of the national government agency which formerly funded new affordable housing and regulated housing associations in England. Its regulatory role was taken over on 1 December 2008 by the newly created Tenant Services Authority (which was in turn replaced in 2012 by the Homes and Communities Agency). This site is now accessible via the National Archives.
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Housing Ombudsman Service
The Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS), formerly known as the Independent Housing Ombudsman, deals with complaints against landlords and agents, and other housing disputes. All social landlords (housing associations) registered in England are members of the scheme, together with certain private landlords and management agents. Site content includes factsheets, case studies, forms, and a directory of all HOS registered landlords.
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Nearly Legal
Nearly Legal is a blog providing housing law news and commentary, written by barristers and solicitors practising in the field of welfare, housing, landlord and tenant and public law. It includes an extensive list of links to other housing law resources and blogs. |
Tenant Services Authority
Tenant Services Authority (TSA) was the operating name of the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords (OTSL), the body which regulated social housing in England from 1 December 2008, when it replaced the Housing Corporation, until it was itself replaced on 1 April 2012 by the Homes and Communities Agency. Content of its web site, now archived by the National Archives, includes TSA Regulatory Judgments, within the Landlords section. |