A report by the Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) has shown that 37.6% of private rented sector homes in Yorkshire are non-decent whilst the national average is 22% nationally and the average across the North as a whole is 30%. This at a time when Yorkshire is the region most heavily dependent on the PRS for housing provision.

Simon Clarke MP, previously a minister for Local Government has been made Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in new Prime Minister Liz Truss's new Cabinet.

The LGA has responded to the Government's launch of the public consultation on a decent homes standard for the private rented sector.

A Judge has told a landlord prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for property licence application fraud that "the only thing you are sorry for is you've been caught."

The Dept' for levelling up, housing and communities has launched its public consultation on the proposed new decent homes standard for homes in the private rented sector. The consultation runs from 2nd September to 14th October 2022.

A new (August 2022) report by experts at the UCL Institute of Health Equity says that the inability of 55% of the UK population to properly heat their homes during the cost of living crisis will have a deep and lasting impact on health outcomes across the country - especially for children and the elderly.

A Newham landlord who illegally evicted his tenant has had a rent repayment order imposed to the tune of £2,825. The property the tenant had been living in was an unlicensed HMO and was the only property that the landlord owned.

According to property press reports, the number of "bills included" private rented tenancies currently being offered by landlords has dropped off a cliff due to the energy price rise chaos the country is experiencing right now.

After the occupant of a flat above a commercial premises in Haringey, London, complained that she had been issued with a £400 penalty notice for putting her rubbish out 35 minutes early the Local Govt and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a report critical of Haringey council for imposing such a fine when it should have written a warning letter instead.

Homelessness charity Crisis in partnership with rental property platform Zoopla have released new research suggesting that the Government needs to up-rate housing benefits payments to cope with a large shortfall for low income households between the housing benefit received and the rents that they actually pay.