A Bristol resident has been convicted of unlawfully subletting their allocated social housing and sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

The High Court has found against the London Borough of Waltham Forest on one of four grounds argued by claimant AA in a judicial review challenge concerning a personal housing plan.

The Right to Buy (RTB) council homes will be drastically curtailed under Government plans, and there will be moves to make it easier for councils to use receipts to build new social housing.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has issued a good practice guide for housing officers on homelessness decisions and disabled people, suggesting a range of changes councils can make to improve services.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute over whether a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 ends by operation of law or whether the local authority is required to make a decision that the duty has ended.

A man who escaped his abusive relatives was left street homeless for five weeks despite asking the London Borough of Waltham Forest for help, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has concluded.

In its latest ‘learning from severe maladministration’ report, the Housing Ombudsman has urged landlords to focus on hate incidents in antisocial behaviour (ASB).

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has launched a consultation on plans to update the Decent Homes Standard, which currently only applies to social housing, to include privately rented housing.

The Renters Rights Bill is likely to be delayed into the autumn because of a logjam of legislation.

West Northamptonshire Council has secured lifetime banning orders under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 for four landlords after a council investigation uncovered a rent-to-rent scheme.

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR)will move from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) under reforms building safety minister Alex Norris said would speed up reviews of proposed building and remediations.

The government has published draft guidance on social landlords’ responsibilities under “Awaab’s Law” which will require social landlords to address emergency and damp and mould hazards that present a “significant risk of harm” to tenants in fixed timeframes.

Rushmoor Council has secured an interim injunction prohibiting unauthorised encampments across 12 individual sites in the borough.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has upheld a complaint from a private landlord that the London Borough of Haringey took too long to end the tenancy of one of its tenants, who had lost the capacity to make that decision for herself, resulting in the landlord losing out on housing benefit for many months.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued guidance to officers in local councils to improve their practice when dealing with people who need housing adaptations, often through what are called ‘Disabled Facilities Grants’ (DFGs).

The London Borough of Hackney has avoided the risk of contempt proceedings against its chief executive by carrying out disrepair works that were the subject of a court order with a penal notice.

A residential letting agent who is instructed on a ‘let only’ basis - and who has no further involvement with the property after receiving a single instalment of rent on the day of the letting - cannot be a ‘person managing’ a house in multiple occupation (HMO) within the meaning of section 263(3) of the Housing Act 2004, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has said.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has handed a governance grading of G3, not meeting the RSH’s requirements, to Anchor, the largest provider in England of specialist housing and care for those in later life.

Parliament cannot have intended that an otherwise lawful offer of accommodation by a local authority could be invalidated for lack of an assessment under section 189A(1) of the Housing Act 1996, the Court of Appeal has found.

A local authority cannot take into account that a qualifying young person is being provided with, or might be provided with, National Asylum Seeker Service (NASS) accommodation under s95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 when deciding whether there are exceptional circumstances for the purposes of s24A(5) of the Children Act 1989, the High Court has ruled.

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has approved a further extension of Richard Blakeway as the Housing Ombudsman until the end of July 2026.

One of the largest housing associations in the country, Bromford, has revealed that it recovered 73 properties in the last year during a drive to address tenancy misuse.

A report into the failings of social landlords has revealed a series of cases, including one woman losing seven potential buyers for her home, in which leaseholders were left feeling isolated and exposed by an unresponsive system.

The London Borough of Hillingdon failed to take steps to alleviate the risk of homelessness to a resident and delayed moving her to interim accommodation, after she received an eviction notice.

The Government is to exempt young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse from local connection requirements in a bid to improve their access to social housing.

Disabled people in England are facing "disproportionate challenges" when navigating local authorities' housing and homelessness services, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has warned.

The last resident of an estate due for demolition must pay social landlord Co-op Homes £7,500 in costs after losing a challenge to a possession order.

The Government has launched a 'National Housing Bank' that will see more than 500,000 homes built with the help of £16bn of new public investment.

The Government will shortly publish a consultation on implementation of a convergence mechanism as part of the new rent settlement announced this week in the Spending Review 2025.

A London borough took a “leisurely” approach to a disrepair case even though an accompanying court order carried a penal notice naming its chief executive, Mr Justice Rajah has said in the High Court.