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 building as a trespasser having entered as a trespasser. Although this section has yet to come into force, the Government has hit back in the
(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’ circumstances change, both financially and in family make-up. Some would say that such ‘recognition’ is long overdue, as often social housing is allocated in times
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 sub let can earn thousands of pounds a year renting their homes out to private tenants and if discovered, face no greater a penalty than
