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Over two million foreign nationals excluded from social housing and benefits

Over two million foreign nationals excluded from social housing and benefits

November 24, 2021

After the June 30 deadline for EU nationals to apply for settled status in the UK, another tranche of the population is now prevented from renting accommodation, getting homelessness help or receiving benefits. EU citizens who have not applied to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS), together with those who have arrived since the deadline, are […]

Category: Migration | Tags: migration policy, housing benefit, immigration checks, right to rent

Ministers should have listened to Right to Rent criticism six years ago

Ministers should have listened to Right to Rent criticism six years ago

March 6, 2019

It’s taken over five years but the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants has now won an argument that was championed from the start by CIH. Back in July 2013 the housing minister wrote to CIH’s chief executive setting out plans to deter ‘illegal’ immigrants by obliging private landlords to check the passport of […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration policy, immigration checks, right to rent, private rented sector

The hostile environment: what social landlords need to know

The hostile environment: what social landlords need to know

May 30, 2018

The problems experienced by the Windrush generation highlight the effects of the “hostile environment” created by Theresa May when she was home secretary. Anyone needing rented housing is affected, alongside those going to hospital or applying for a job or bank account. Social housing applicants have long had to comply with eligibility rules but landlords […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, immigration checks, destitution, right to rent

Is Britain about anything other than battles?

Is Britain about anything other than battles?

November 17, 2017

How old was Mary, Queen of Scots, when she took the throne? Who won the Battle of Killiecrankie? Unless you know the answers, you’re not fit to be a British citizen. Well, of course you may be one already, but for people who take the Home Office’s Life in the UK test in the hope […]

Category: Migration | Tags: right to rent, private rented sector, migration policy, immigration checks

Five myths about migrants and housing

Five myths about migrants and housing

June 6, 2017

What do you know about migrants and where they live? Here are five things often said about migrants’ housing rights that are untrue or only partially true. Get the facts here. Migrants have a right to social housing New migrants from outside the EU aren’t eligible for social housing except in very limited circumstances (e.g. […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration policy, immigration checks | 1 Response

The Home Office doesn’t know how many landlords are failing to carry out controversial checks on potential tenants. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Right to rent immigration checks put vulnerable people at risk

February 1, 2017

One year ago, on 1 February 2016, the government implemented its “right to rent” scheme, requiring landlords who let property in England to carry out checks on the immigration status of potential tenants, as part of a government drive to create a “hostile environment for illegal migrants”. The government plans to extend the scheme to […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, immigration checks

Scope for error

Scope for error

February 1, 2016

Immigration checks for new tenancies start today (February 1) but they don’t affect social landlords, do they? Actually, they do – because although many tenancies are exempt, all landlords need to be aware of those that aren’t – and of the repercussions of the checks applying across the private sector. From February any new tenant […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, immigration checks

Immigration checks - a plea for caution

Immigration checks – a plea for caution

September 3, 2015

The Home Office is pushing ahead with the roll-out of immigration checks by private landlords, but has still not published its evaluation of the first phase of the scheme. In the meantime, an independent assessment confirms many of the worries that the Chartered Institute of Housing and others had when the idea was first put […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, immigration checks

Harsh measures

Harsh measures

August 4, 2015

Landlords are struggling to see the connection between the government’s need to respond to the crisis in Calais and the sudden announcement that it’s going to be made easier to evict ‘illegal’ immigrants from tenancies, and that landlords will face jail sentences if they don’t properly check tenants’ immigration status. As Richard Lambert of the […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, immigration checks

Should private landlords be ‘amateur border guards’?

December 10, 2014

New measures requiring private landlords to check the immigration status of prospective tenants started to come into force on 1 December. CIH policy adviser John Perry explains why we are working with a range of organisations to assess the impact. The question in the title of this blog was posed by ‘accidental landlord’ Victoria Whitlock […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, immigration checks

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