Are the days of ‘squatters rights’ numbered?
Buried deep within the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 is section 144 which makes it a criminal offence for a person to be in a residential
Localism Act 2011 – Changes in Social Housing Tenure
(A). … A Step in the Right Direction? In this legislation, there is recognition by the Government that a social housing tenancy should not be ‘for life’ and that tenants’
Sub letting of social housing to become a criminal offence.
The Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, MP announced earlier this year plans to make sub-letting of social housing a criminal offence. As we are all too aware, social housing tenants who