Success in ‘gatekeeping’ homeless JR
We succeeded in our urgent application in this ongoing JR, getting our very vulnerable client moved into accommodation after she became ‘homeless from home’.
We succeeded in our urgent application in this ongoing JR, getting our very vulnerable client moved into accommodation after she became ‘homeless from home’.
We took on this case after the tenant’s relationship broke down with her previous solicitor.
We acted for our client, who had formerly had problems with heroin addiction, to secure her a new two bed tenancy in a safe area.
Our client had been living in a very small studio flat with her 10 year old daughter for over 3 years.
Our client was placed by the local authority (Southwark Council) in temporary accommodation out of borough in Tower Hamlets, after they accepted they owed her and her family the main housing duty under section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended).
Our client had been registered on Lambeth council’s housing waiting list with her husband. When our client separated from her husband, the council gave her a new housing waiting list account which meant she lost over 5 years waiting time.
Our client was living in a shared house ran by a housing association on an assured shorthold tenancy. Our client was Eritrean, and for the 7 years he had lived there all the other tenants had also been Eritrean.
Our client was the secure tenant of a Local Authority property (“LA”). His property suffered from structural movement, and serious disrepair including severe cracks in the walls and ceilings, damp and mould.
A private landlord had issued possession proceedings against our client on the basis of both a Section 21 (‘no fault’) notice and a Section 8 notice.
Our client is a secure tenant of a London Borough.