Manchester City Council can proceed with evictions at a tent encampment in St Peter’s Square, a judge has ruled.

Liberty, Streets Kitchen and the Museum of Homelessness have published a new guide setting out how individuals can appeal a Community Protection Notice (CPNs) if they are issued one.

More than 100 sites across England have been put forward for consideration to be part of the next generation of new towns, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has said.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to inject £300m into the Affordable Homes Programme and £50m into the Local Authority Housing Fund.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has unveiled plans to modernise the way the conveyancing process works, in order to bring down current delays of almost five months and cut 'fall-throughs'.

City of York Council has called on tenants to report repairs to their landlord first, after a judge at York County Court last month ordered an unsuccessful disrepair claimant to pay almost £8,000 in costs.

A law to force social landlords to investigate and fix hazards within a set timescale will be introduced in phases from October 2025, the Government has announced.

The Home Office has lost a case about the allocation of bail accommodation for a foreign national offender and has been ordered by the High Court to make various changes to this system as well as pay 85% of claimant BLZ’s costs.

A County Court judge has confessed to both “significant” and “considerable” hesitation in deciding a case involving whether a person can be deemed intentionally homeless when they have obtained a tenancy following misrepresentations to a local housing authority, which then evicts them as a result.

Some 140 registered providers and more than 70 local authorities have registered as potential buyers through Homes England’s new section 106 affordable housing clearing service in its first 50 days.

The Housing Ombudsman has uncovered what it calls “callous and uncaring systems and processes” in its latest Learning from severe maladministration report, which looked at adaptations and landlords’ responses to mental and physical health needs.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has issued another C3 grading to a local authority, this time to Portsmouth City Council, after an investigation found the council had fallen short of consumer standards, in particular those relating to the Safety and Quality Standard.

Midland Heart is to procure its latest legal services framework agreement, which is estimated to be worth £1.5m.

The London Borough of Lambeth is facing a judicial review challenge from a private resident of a housing estate who is threatened with eviction amid claims the council breached the Localism Act 2011 and the Housing Act 1985.

The influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned of an overreliance on the use of temporary accommodation, “due in part to a dwindling and increasingly costly housing stock”.

Supported housing company, Phoenix Supported Housing CIC, has been prosecuted by the City of Wolverhampton Council after illegally evicting a vulnerable tenant.

Guildford Borough Council senior officers missed 13 "key red flags" that should have notified them of significant risks associated with a housing maintenance contractor, an independent report has found.

Law firm Trowers & Hamlins has advised Torbay Council on its first ‘Hotels to Homes’ scheme, a project to convert former hotels into high quality affordable housing.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) and St James, a subsidiary of the Berkeley Group, have reached a settlement with the residents of a block of flats destroyed by a fire in 2019.

The Housing Ombudsman has shared insight into how social landlords have implemented its recommendations on Knowledge and Information Management (KIM), adding that an effective approach in this area is “fundamental for providing decent homes and services”.

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by an asylum seeker over a decision by Islington Council that he had no “local connection” with the area and so his application should be referred to another London borough.

Two-thirds of councils have reported a risk of being unable to set a balanced housing budget by the next general election, according to new research by Southwark Council.

Raising the threshold at which councils must set up a separate financial management account for their council housing, known as the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), could unlock up to 88,000 additional council homes, the District Councils' Network has said.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the Government to go further with its reforms of Right to Buy (RTB) to give local authorities more influence over how the scheme operates locally amid rising demand to buy homes through the scheme.

The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW) has been forced to review complaints data it published for the first time on social housing in Wales.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has handed down C3 grades, indicating serious failings in meeting the outcomes of the consumer standards, to both Newcastle and Nottingham city councils.

Barking and Dagenham Council will introduce a new selective licensing scheme in April to improve the management and quality of private rental homes across the borough, after taking advantage of a change in legislation – announced in the English Devolution White Paper – that empowers councils to implement larger licensing schemes without seeking government approval.

Newham Council is set to become the latest local authority to apply to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) for Exceptional Financial Support (EFS), blaming what it calls the “crippling” burden of temporary accommodation costs.

The Riverside Group, which has more than 75,000 homes in management and operates across around 175 local authorities, has chosen five law firms for its next framework for legal services in England.

Enfield Council has served a planning enforcement notice on a landlord unlawfully operating a former police station building as a hostel.