MJR
@housingadvice.bsky.social
Housing and homelessness law. Third sector. Housing is a human right. Friend of the wasp.
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Thank you for supporting Crisis at Christmas 2025. Together we:
🧑🤝🧑Supported 6,000+ people
🛌Welcomed 390 guests into Crisis hotels
🙏Mobilised 3,500 volunteers
🧑⚕️Delivered 775+ health appointments
🎄Packed 1,100+ festive hampers
We couldn’t do it without you❤️
🧑🤝🧑Supported 6,000+ people
🛌Welcomed 390 guests into Crisis hotels
🙏Mobilised 3,500 volunteers
🧑⚕️Delivered 775+ health appointments
🎄Packed 1,100+ festive hampers
We couldn’t do it without you❤️
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Thank you for supporting Crisis at Christmas 2025. Together we:
🧑🤝🧑Supported 6,000+ people
🛌Welcomed 390 guests into Crisis hotels
🙏Mobilised 3,500 volunteers
🧑⚕️Delivered 775+ health appointments
🎄Packed 1,100+ festive hampers
We couldn’t do it without you❤️
🧑🤝🧑Supported 6,000+ people
🛌Welcomed 390 guests into Crisis hotels
🙏Mobilised 3,500 volunteers
🧑⚕️Delivered 775+ health appointments
🎄Packed 1,100+ festive hampers
We couldn’t do it without you❤️
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Anyway, enjoy the World Cup!
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
February 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Anyway, enjoy the World Cup!
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A Deputy District Judge messes up on a stay of eviction and a couple of related companies fail in evicting an assured tenant of one of them by a cunning wheeze to which section 18 Housing Act 1988 is a complete defence. County Court appeal.
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/when-y…
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/when-y…
When your landlord's landlord is your landlord (and a bit of procedural irregularity) - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment
El-Mouka v (1) Ramsy Property Ltd (2) Home Connect Ltd. Romford County Court, 8th August 2025 (note of judgment here) This was a County Court appeal against a possession order and a refusal to stay eviction on a private tenancy. It is a rarity because it concerns section 18 Housing Act 1988, which …
nearlylegal.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
A Deputy District Judge messes up on a stay of eviction and a couple of related companies fail in evicting an assured tenant of one of them by a cunning wheeze to which section 18 Housing Act 1988 is a complete defence. County Court appeal.
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/when-y…
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/when-y…
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Although Westminster has made a commitment to build more social homes, this is not helping the record numbers of people trapped in temporary accommodation right now.
The Government must restore housing benefit this autumn to cover the true cost of renting.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
The Government must restore housing benefit this autumn to cover the true cost of renting.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
July 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Although Westminster has made a commitment to build more social homes, this is not helping the record numbers of people trapped in temporary accommodation right now.
The Government must restore housing benefit this autumn to cover the true cost of renting.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
The Government must restore housing benefit this autumn to cover the true cost of renting.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
Housing folks - can anyone help me track down DoE Circular 2/97, guidance on introductory tenancies, please? Published 31 Jan 1997. Drawing a blank here. Many thanks in advance.
July 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Housing folks - can anyone help me track down DoE Circular 2/97, guidance on introductory tenancies, please? Published 31 Jan 1997. Drawing a blank here. Many thanks in advance.
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Now-poet laureate Simon Armitage spent eight years as a probation officer – trying to "make life tolerable for people" to prevent them from reoffending.
Today, he’s published a new ode to this work – A Life in the Day Of. Read it here ⤵️
buff.ly/dO4ySGt
Today, he’s published a new ode to this work – A Life in the Day Of. Read it here ⤵️
buff.ly/dO4ySGt
March 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Now-poet laureate Simon Armitage spent eight years as a probation officer – trying to "make life tolerable for people" to prevent them from reoffending.
Today, he’s published a new ode to this work – A Life in the Day Of. Read it here ⤵️
buff.ly/dO4ySGt
Today, he’s published a new ode to this work – A Life in the Day Of. Read it here ⤵️
buff.ly/dO4ySGt
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People in #Liverpool! Please come and show your solidarity, just outside Cofee Lodge, at 57 Lodge Lane, L8 0QE.
SERCO is threatening to move one of our sisters out of her home of many years. She is not going anywhere and it would be great if you can show your solidarity, even just for an hour!
SERCO is threatening to move one of our sisters out of her home of many years. She is not going anywhere and it would be great if you can show your solidarity, even just for an hour!
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
People in #Liverpool! Please come and show your solidarity, just outside Cofee Lodge, at 57 Lodge Lane, L8 0QE.
SERCO is threatening to move one of our sisters out of her home of many years. She is not going anywhere and it would be great if you can show your solidarity, even just for an hour!
SERCO is threatening to move one of our sisters out of her home of many years. She is not going anywhere and it would be great if you can show your solidarity, even just for an hour!
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The numbers don't add up.
Homelessness is rising, yet we’re still losing more social homes than we’re building.
The Govt wants to build 1.5m homes👏 That must include funding in the spending review to cover building 90,000 social homes annually.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
Homelessness is rising, yet we’re still losing more social homes than we’re building.
The Govt wants to build 1.5m homes👏 That must include funding in the spending review to cover building 90,000 social homes annually.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
February 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The numbers don't add up.
Homelessness is rising, yet we’re still losing more social homes than we’re building.
The Govt wants to build 1.5m homes👏 That must include funding in the spending review to cover building 90,000 social homes annually.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
Homelessness is rising, yet we’re still losing more social homes than we’re building.
The Govt wants to build 1.5m homes👏 That must include funding in the spending review to cover building 90,000 social homes annually.
www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/cri...
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The MCHLG impact assessment on Renters' Rights Bill puts the core cost to landlords at £22 per property per year over 10 years (though then saving £9 per property per year in letting agent costs). So £13 per year.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Renters’ Rights Bill: Impact assessment
Impact assessment relating to the Renters’ Rights Bill.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2024 at 7:03 PM
The MCHLG impact assessment on Renters' Rights Bill puts the core cost to landlords at £22 per property per year over 10 years (though then saving £9 per property per year in letting agent costs). So £13 per year.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...