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The ten most recent good practice and guidance documents published on the housing site.

• A guide to the licensing and management provisions in Parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Housing Act 2004 - Draft

  This draft document provides a guide to the HMO licensing provisions contained in the Housing Act 2004.

  • Added:  27 January 2010
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Reports and summaries

• Social Homebuy: Guidance for local authorities

  This is a guide for local authority landlords who are operating, or are considering operating, the Social Homebuy scheme.

  • Added:  20 January 2010
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• P1E Guidance: Homelessness Prevention and Relief: Recording cases where positive action is taken to prevent or relieve homelessness

  This note provides guidance for local housing authorities about recording cases where homelessness is prevented or relieved for the purpose of the P1E data return.

  • Added:  14 December 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Statistics

• Recording Homelessness Prevention and relief at E10 of the P1E Quarterly Return: Further guidance for local housing authorities

  This note provides further non-statutory guidance for local housing authorities on how to record for the P1E quarterly return cases where homelessness is prevented or relieved.

  • Added:  14 December 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Statistics

• Fair and flexible: statutory guidance on social housing allocations for local authorities in England: Impact Assessment

  This Impact Assessment accompanies new statutory guidance on social housing allocations for local authorities in England.

  • Added:  4 December 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Impact assessments; Good practice and guidance

• Fair and flexible: statutory guidance on social housing allocations for local authorities in England

  This is statutory guidance to local housing authorities, to inform their policies on the allocation of social housing.

  • Added:  4 December 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Fair and flexible: statutory guidance on social housing allocations for local authorities in England - Equality Impact Assessment

  This Equality Impact Assessment accompanies new statutory guidance on social housing allocations for local authorities in England.

  • Added:  4 December 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Impact assessments; Good practice and guidance

• Tackling unlawful subletting and occupancy: Good practice guidance for social landlords

  Guidance for social landlords on how to prevent, detect and deal effectively with social housing fraud.

  • Added:  30 November 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Homelessness prevention and meeting housing need for (ex)offenders: A guide to practice

  This document provides guidance for those who work with (ex)offenders on how they should prevent homelessness and meet their housing needs.

  • Added:  2 November 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Reports and summaries; Good practice and guidance

• Right to manage (RTM) companies under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002: new form of constitutional document: Guidance

  Guidance on the new form of constitutional document for right to manage (RTM) companies.

  • Added:  26 October 2009
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance