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Housing Rights response to Department for Communities consultation on notice to quit

Consultation Response
January 2022

We have responded to the Department for Communities consultation on notice to quit.

The Private Tenancies Bill extends the notice to quit period from 28 days to 8 weeks, for tenancies lasting longer than 12 months. The 12-week notice period for tenancies of more than 10 years will stay the same. The DfC’s consultation is to investigate whether 8 weeks is enough time for a tenant to find a suitable home.

Read our response.

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Housing Rights MLA bulletin Autumn 2022

Policy Briefing
January 2022

As we move towards the last few months of this Assembly mandate, Housing Rights is setting out priority areas for housing informed by the experience of people using our advice services. We have identified a set of key policy asks necessary to deliver good-quality, affordable, sustainable homes for people across Northern Ireland over the course of the 2022 – 2027 mandate

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Housing Rights gives evidence to NI Assembly Committee on new Bill

2 November 2021
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Housing Rights this morning gave evidence to the NI Assembly Communities Committee on the new Private Tenancies Bill.

The Bill contains 11 substantive clauses and three schedules which provide for a series of amendments to the Private Tenancies Order (Northern Ireland) 2006. Housing Rights has welcomed the Bill as an important first step in addressing the issues facing many private renters in Northern Ireland.

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Housing Rights welcomes extension of emergency measures giving private renters continued protection against eviction

31 August 2021

Leading housing advice charity, Housing Rights, has welcomed the extension of emergency measures which will ensure private renters continue to have enhanced protection against eviction during the period of COVID-19.

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Housing Rights Responds to DfC’s Call for Evidence on Housing Supply Strategy

23 July 2021
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Housing Rights response to the Housing Supply Strategy call for evidence

Consultation Response
July 2021

Housing Rights welcomes the development of this strategy and are pleased to contribute to the Call for Evidence. In our view the impact of this strategy could be more fully delivered if the title of the strategy was more representative of the strategy’s proposed objectives. “Housing Supply” is a technical term which is directly relevant to the first proposed objective. A broader title may more fully encompass the breadth of objectives in the strategy. Housing Rights notes the adoption in the easy read version of this document of the title “A plan for housing for people in NI” and would readily support the adoption of these sentiments in the main strategy title.

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Housing Rights response to Programme for Government Draft Outcomes Framework

Consultation Response
March 2021

Housing Rights is supportive of the broad ethos of the Draft Outcomes Framework in that the focus is on outcomes, achieved by cross departmental working. A high-level government commitment to policy design and delivery which is outcomes based is welcome. Housing Rights welcomes the Executive’s Office intention that “the new Programme for Government (PfG) will bring a new focus to deliver lasting, real and positive change in people’s lives.” However, Housing Rights believes that due to the lack of a specific housing outcome, the draft framework will fail to deliver lasting, real and positive change for those who need it most.

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Housing leaders call upon government to deliver on its NDNA commitment to prioritise housing

3 March 2021

Four leading housing organisations, including Housing Rights,  have approached the joint heads of government to discuss the housing crisis in Northern Ireland and relay sectoral concerns regarding the absence of a specific housing outcome in the draft Programme for Government.

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2021-2022 draft budget would negatively impact vulnerable groups 

24 February 2021

In January 2021, the Department of Finance published their draft budget. The document sets out the Northern Ireland Executive’s proposed spending plans for the one year period from 1 April 2021 to March 2022. 

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Legislation ending HA right to buy passes final stage in assembly

1 July 2020

This week the Housing (Amendment) Bill passed its final stage in the NI Assembly. In addition to other changes to the regulation of housing associations, the bill will end the compulsory house sales scheme for housing association tenants.

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