Local Authority Housing in UK Law

  • ‘It’s all considered to be unacceptable behaviour’
    • No. 63-4, December 2016
    • Probation Journal
    Despite a growing recognition of the intersectional relationship between homelessness and incarceration, we have a limited knowledge about housing policy and practice for people leaving custody and...
    ... ... practitioners’ experience of statutory housing duty for (ex)offenders Vickie Cooper The Open ... this paper provides an overview of the main local housing authority statutory duties in the ... ...
  • THE REGIONAL OFFICES OF THE DOE — POLICEMEN OR MEDIATORS? A STUDY OF LOCAL HOUSING POLICY
    • No. 62-4, December 1984
    • Public Administration
    The article begins with a review of the existing literature on the regional level of government and the ‘regional state’, and proceeds to focus on the range of linkages which are found between the ...
    ... ... The article concludes with suggestions concerning the role and influence of the regional officers of the DOE on local authority housing policy. Recent years have seen a steady increase in the interest shown in the study of central- local government relations ... ...
  • The Alchemists' Search for the Philosophers' Stone: The Status of Registered Social Landlords under the Human Rights Act
    • No. 66-5, September 2003
    • The Modern Law Review
    Social housing in Great Britain is undergoing a radical transformation with the transfer of local authority housing to housing associations, more particularly registered social landlords (RSLs). Wh...
    ... ... the Human Rights Act Jill Morgan n Social housing in Great Britain is undergoing a radical mation with the transfer of local authority housing to housing associations, more ... ...
  • Book Notes
    • No. 53-3, September 1975
    • Public Administration
    Book review in this article Local Government in Britain Central Office of Information, 10th ed HMSO, 1975. The Essex Reference Index: British Journals on Politics and Sociology, 1950–73 K. Mayor...
    ... ... Book Notes Local Government in Britain Central Office of ... the principal types of local authority, local election procedures, internal or- ... Local Authority Housing Policy and Practice-A Case Study Approach ... ...
  • A False Hope?: A Critical Evaluation of the Difference made by the Human Rights Act to those who Rent Homes
    • No. 1-1, January 2011
    • Southampton Student Law Review
    • Victoria Ferguson
    • 93-104
    Scholars believed that the Human Rights Act 1998 would compel the courts to address the much derided injustices of housing law and therefore lead to much stronger rights and protection for tenants....
    ... ... to address the much derided injustices of housing law and therefore lead to much stronger rights ... proportion of tenants, namely those in local authority housing who were previously liable to ... ...
  • Trust, Distrust and Betrayal: A Social Housing Case Study
    • No. 72-2, March 2009
    • The Modern Law Review
    This paper discusses the importance of trust, distrust and betrayal in the context of relational contracts in the modern welfare state. We use a specific case study of the allocation of social hous...
    ... ... allocation of social hous- ing.That context is one in which the local authority has statutoryobligations towards households in housing need ... ...
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 64-4, December 1986
    • Public Administration
    CABINET Peter Hennessy WHITEHALL: TRAGEDY AND FARCE Clive Ponting POLICY CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES Nicholas Deakin (ed.) JOB AT THE TOP Sir John Boynton ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF LOCAL...
    ... ... Raynsford then considers the 1977 Housing (Homeless Persons) Act. The author is ... over the years, the absence of local authority jurisdiction in the field, the ... ...
  • Include me in: user involvement in research and evaluation
    • No. 17-1, February 2013
    • Mental Health and Social Inclusion
    • 35-42
    Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the experiences of a group of eight user and carer researchers from learning disability and mental health services who worked together in a research project. The...
    ... ... project involvinga partnership between a local authority and a housing ... ...
  • Uses of Macro Social Theory: A Social Housing Case Study
    • No. 79-1, January 2016
    • The Modern Law Review
    This article reflects on the use of macro social theoretical perspectives to explain micro social issues, using social housing allocations as a case study. In contrast to a number of social theoret...
    ... ... We draw on a sample of local authority allocation schemes to reflect on the growing category of ... ...
  • No Place Like Home: The UK Courts' Cautious Approach on Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to English Housing Law
    • No. 10-1, January 2020
    • Southampton Student Law Review
    • Zahra Dalal
    • LLB with International Legal Studies (Soton)
    • 1-15
    Since the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)1 the rights conferred to individuals under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)2 are directly applicable in domestic courts. Inco...
    ... ... these rights into UK law has resulted in challenges to local authority decisions and even in relation to the private ... housing ... ...
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