Day: 10 July 2015

MLRC successfully advocates for client who was refused access to housing list and homeless priority due to having “made herself homeless” and rent arrears. Local authority cannot impose such further criterion of manner in which became homeless into finding as to whether “homeless” or not

Our client presented to us as she was in emergency accommodation with her children having been evicted in March 2014 for rent arrears accrued unknowingly over a ten year period. Her social housing support application had been deferred and the reason given was due to ‘rent arrears from former voluntary housing tenancy’.  She faced two […]