Government to ‘name and shame’ landlords with sub-par social housing Plans are also in place to establish a ‘resident panel’ that will allow tenants to be heard ‘directly’ by those in power. The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2022
Housing department ‘unequipped’ to handle insulation warning – Grenfell Inquiry The department was warned in 2014 that ‘combustible’ materials were being used in buildings over 18 metres high, the inquiry was told. The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2022
The Decent Home Standard promises to force landlords to make homes safer – but it will only work with enforcement More than one in five private renters in the UK live in a house that does not meet the government’s standards for decent homes. This means that around a million private renters in England are living in homes which contain dangerous hazards, are not in a reasonable state of repair,… The Conversation · Feb 22, 2022