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What are Rural Housing Burdens on Shared Equity Properties?
Shared equity schemes including Homestake and LiFT, are becoming increasingly popular and some Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and their subsidiaries who are Rural Housing Bodies, have applied a title condition called a Rural Housing Burden (RHB) on their shared equity developments. What is a Rural Housing Burden? The official definition is: A perpetual personal right
Demise of Lifelong Tenancy Agreements: Voluntary Evictions?
Last October the Coalition government introduced proposals to remove the concept that tenancies in the social rented sector should be lifelong. These proposals howeveer will not affect Scotland as housing is a devolved issue for the Scottish parliament. The plans are currently being debated at Westminster as part of the Localism Bill but current proposals
Welfare Reform and RSLs, the Debate Continues
The Welfare Reform bill which is currently progressing through parliament at Westminster has created much debate in the housing sector. Much of the debate has involved the proposed introduction of a “universal credit”, a single benefit payment for all claimants. This credit would: replace all existing benefits involve the eventual removal of Housing Benefit as
Housing Allocations Policy
Given that a Registered Social Landlord’s Allocation Policy is a public document it requires to be up to date and in keeping with:- • an Association’s Rules, • current legislation, including the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 as amended by the 2001 Act, the Equality Act 2010 and • all provisions in relation to Human Rights. Most RSLs have
Registered Social Landlords – Does Anyone Have an Unlimited Budget for Adaptations?
With recent legislative changes RSLs are going to have to work hard to ensure they balance the requirements of the law against their annual budget. The Equalities Act means that a number of obligations have been imposed on RSLs, who will now be obliged to provide solutions for disabled tenants. Set against a backdrop of
