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Spending review: Mystery over accessible housing pledges

By John Pring on 27th November 2015 Category: Housing

Spending review: Mystery over accessible housing pledges
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The government appears to have committed to funding two new measures aimed at tackling the shortage of accessible housing for disabled and older people. Announcing the results of the spending review, which detail the government’s spending plans until the next general […]

Housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’ 

By John Pring on 18th September 2015 Category: Housing

Housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’ 
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A disabled university lecturer was forced to live in a residential home for older people for seven months because of a crisis in accessible housing that is “spiralling out of control”, according to a new report. Dr Chetna Patel was moving […]

Disabled coach faces IDS bedroom tax appeal… as PM recognises his volunteering

By John Pring on 21st August 2015 Category: Housing

Disabled coach faces IDS bedroom tax appeal… as PM recognises his volunteering
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A disabled football coach has been recognised by the prime minister with a national volunteering award, even though that work is threatened by a legal battle over the “bedroom tax” with work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith. Lifelong Liverpool fan […]

Bedroom tax five win permission for Supreme Court appeal

By John Pring on 16th January 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Housing, News Archive

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Five disabled adults have won permission to take their legal battle against the government’s “bedroom tax” to the Supreme Court. The five – including Jayson and Jacqueline Carmichael, from Southport – were seeking the hearing after a “baffling” court of appeal […]

Council finds larger home for disabled couple… then stings them for bedroom tax

By John Pring on 19th September 2014 Category: Housing

Council finds larger home for disabled couple… then stings them for bedroom tax
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A local authority arranged for a disabled couple to move from their one-bedroom flat into a two-bedroom bungalow because they needed to sleep apart for health reasons, but then forced them to pay the “bedroom tax”. Croydon council moved Roy Langridge […]

Forum seeks volunteers for vital access role in £4 billion regeneration project

By John Pring on 15th August 2014 Category: Housing

Forum seeks volunteers for vital access role in £4 billion regeneration project
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A new forum is looking for six disabled people to play a vital role in ensuring that one of the capital’s largest regeneration schemes is accessible to disabled people. The £4 billion Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme will create a new town […]

Government ducks challenge on accessible housing

By John Pring on 21st March 2014 Category: Housing

Government ducks challenge on accessible housing
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The government has ignored calls to introduce tough new accessible housing standards. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced its plans this week for a “radically simplified” system of standards in the design and construction of new homes. The […]

Ministers give no ground as MPs call for ‘bedroom tax’ exemptions

By John Pring on 14th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Housing, News Archive, Politics

Ministers give no ground as MPs call for ‘bedroom tax’ exemptions
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Two Conservative ministers have refused to consider exempting disabled people from the “bedroom tax”, despite new research that suggests many are facing eviction from their homes. Lord Freud, the welfare reform minister, and Kris Hopkins, the housing minister, were giving evidence […]

Council challenged over DLA in latest ‘bedroom tax’ court case

By John Pring on 24th January 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Housing, News Archive

Council challenged over DLA in latest ‘bedroom tax’ court case
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A disabled couple are challenging their council’s decision that their disability benefits must be taken into account when deciding the level of housing benefit they receive, in the latest legal challenge around the government’s controversial “bedroom tax”. Lawyers have been granted […]

Disabled peer battles on over care home human rights protection

By John Pring on 24th January 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Housing, Human Rights, News Archive

Disabled peer battles on over care home human rights protection
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A disabled peer is refusing to concede defeat despite the coalition narrowly overturning his amendment to the care bill, which would have provided human rights protection for residents of private sector and charity-run homes. Lord [Colin] Low secured the amendment after […]

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