Universal Credit – Letting Focus

Private Rented Sector Quoted in the Media

April 28, 2015 David Lawrenson Leave a comment

Recent press comments from me on the private rented sector….. Private Rented Sector Quoted in the Media On the policies of successive governments towards the private rented sector: “….Too often policy is confused and contradictory and too often the changes that have been made offer far too little to landlords and tenants in terms of improving the private rented sector.” […]

Immigration, Housing Benefits and Private Landlords

January 9, 2014 David Lawrenson

It seems the media are finally having a proper and mature debate about immigration – even the BBC is now doing it, without fearing that by even questioning the extent of immigration the dear BEEB could themselves be labelled as racist. It has taken many years for all in the media to have a sensible debate about this big issue, […]

Local Housing Allowance and More Changes to Policy

January 23, 2013 David Lawrenson

David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com explains the “work arounds” and the sleights of hand involved in the latest changes in Local Housing Allowance funding. The government has just voted to cap rises in several benefits, including local housing allowance (LHA) base rates, at the lower of 1% or the 30th percentile of local rents – which means that in practice, in […]