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.

Social housing organisations including the Chartered Institute of Housing and the National Housing Federation have sent a joint letter to ministers, calling for a 10-year rent settlement for councils and housing associations.

The Government is to review statutory guidance to make anti-social behaviour case reviews more accessible and effective for victims.

The financial position of private registered providers has weakened as a result of the need to make substantial investment in existing homes, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has warned.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has accused Brentwood Borough Council of gatekeeping access to its homelessness services.

The G15 and its newly formed Residents' Group have backed a proposal that social housing rents should increase by CPI+1% and called for a 10-year settlement.

Law firm Burges Salmon has advised Birmingham City Council on the sale of 487 homes to Legal & General Affordable Homes.

The Local Government Association’s housing spokesperson has called for an immediate increase in the subsidy for temporary accommodation, so that it is no longer frozen at 90% of 2011 Local Housing Association rates.

A large number of 16 and 17-year-olds who become homeless are not assessed or are housed under the wrong legislation, with no practical or financial support from children’s social care services until the age of 25, according to new research by the Coram Institute for Children.

The London Borough of Hackney has lost a Court of Appeal case over the eligibility for right to buy of a rabbi who occupied a home for only part of the time.

A landlord has successfully appealed to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) over whether a property he owns has enough occupants to qualify as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) liable for licensing by Cornwall Council.

Homes England has set up a database of available Section 106 housing opportunities across England, excluding London.

Sefton Council has secured £45,000 in fines after bringing 10 prosecutions of three housing management companies.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has urged Luton Borough Council to clear a backlog of 68 benefits appeals that are waiting to be referred to the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal.

Castle Point Borough Council has become the second local authority to be handed a C4 grading, the lowest, by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH).

The Court of Appeal has ruled against granting a judicial review of Essex County Council over whether a teenager who might have become homeless was entitled to ‘former relevant child’ status.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that it would be disproportionate to allow the London Borough of Sutton to pursue an appeal that had become academic in a housing case.

The Housing Ombudsman has urged housing providers to improve their response to hazards ahead of the introduction of Awaab’s Law.

Southwark Council has secured an unlawful profit order of nearly £40,000 against a tenant who illegally sublet a property for more than a decade.

A special investigation by the Housing Ombudsman into social landlord Hyde has found repeated failings in repairs, complaint handling and how the housing association responded to residents’ enquiries about service charges.

A child with significant and complex needs had to live in an unsuitable home for far longer than necessary because Bromsgrove District Council and Worcestershire County Council made a number of errors when adapting a home to their needs, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found.

Frozen Local Housing Allowance rates have left councils to meet £737.3m in temporary accommodation costs over the past five years that they are unable to claim back from government, the Local Government Association has warned.

A district judge’s decision in a case over licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMO) used for asylum seekers must stand despite a legal error, the High Court has found.

The Technology and Construction Court has refused to end proceedings in a procurement dispute concerning social landlord Orbit Group, which it has said must make some requested disclosures to claimant Robert Heath Heating (RHH).