Shelter Legal sitemap
Housing options
- Emergency accommodation
- Allocation of local authority housing
- PRPSHs and housing associations
- Regulation of social housing providers
- Private rented accommodation
- Paying for accommodation
- Accommodation agencies
- Housing co-operatives
- Older people
- Disabled people
- Young people and care leavers
- Asylum seekers & refugees
- Lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people
- Equality law
Homelessness applications
- Introduction to homelessness
- LA duties: applications, inquiries and decisions
- Making a homelessness application
- Homelessness prevention
- Applying to more than one authority
- LA refusal to accept application
- Duty to carry out inquiries
- Protection of property
- Interim duty to accommodate
- Decisions and notifications
- Repeat applications
- Fraudulent applications
- Applications before 31 July 2002
- Defining homelessness
- Eligibility: non-EEA/EU nationals
- Eligibility: EEA/EU nationals and British nationals
- Persons eligible for assistance
- Ineligible persons from abroad
- Habitual residence test
- A8 and A2 nationals
- Investigations into eligibility
- Accommodation during investigations
- Children Act/community care duties
- Overview of the eligibility rules
- European Union law
- Key UK regulations
- The EEA and the EU
- Priority need
- Intentional homelessness
- Local connection
- LA duties: advice and accommodation
- Challenging LA decisions
- Homelessness strategies
Security of tenure
- Introduction to security of tenure
- Tenancy checker
- Tenancy or licence?
- Secure tenancies
- Introductory tenancies
- Demoted tenancies
- Family intervention tenancies
- Assured tenancies
- Assured shorthold tenancies
- Regulated (protected) tenancies
- Protected shorthold tenancies
- Restricted contracts
- Public sector licences
- Basic protection/excluded occupiers
- Tenants of mortgagors
- Mobile homes
- Gypsies and Travellers
- Subtenancies
- Squatters
- Tied accommodation
- Agricultural occupiers
- Assignment and relinquishment
- Succession
- Essential links
- Introduction
- Civil Partnership Act 2004
- Common law rules on succession
- Secure tenancies
- Introductory tenancies
- Demoted tenancies
- Assured tenancies
- Assured shorthold tenancies
- Regulated tenancies
- Agricultural occupiers
- Mobile homes
- Licensees
- Joint occupation
- Liability for deceased's arrears
- Possession orders on succession
- Possession proceedings
- Scope of this section
- Basic principles
- When notice is required
- Validity of notices
- Issuing a claim form
- Establishing grounds for possession
- Responding to claim for possession
- Public law and human rights defences
- Bankruptcy and possession
- Debt relief orders and possession
- Court hearing
- Possession orders
- Status after court order
- Changing possession orders
- Warrant of possession
- After eviction
Rents & housing benefit
- Introduction to rents
- Fair rents and reasonable rents
- Market rents
- Housing benefit
- Benefit rates
- What is housing benefit?
- Eligibility for housing benefit
- Occupying the home
- Eligible rent and rent restrictions
- Making a claim
- How housing benefit is awarded
- Backdated claims
- Calculation of housing benefit
- Changes in circumstances
- Underpayments of housing benefit
- Overpayments of housing benefit
- Discretionary housing payments
- Appealing housing benefit decisions
- Complaints to the Ombudsman
- Local housing allowance
Harassment & antisocial behaviour
- Introduction
- Harassment and illegal eviction
- Harassment and antisocial behaviour
- Antisocial behaviour and harassment
- Identifying the nature of the problem
- Offences involving violence
- Statutory nuisance
- Environmental nuisance
- Offences relating to dogs
- Negotiation and mediation
- Taking action
- Practical steps
- Injunctions
- Closure orders
- Demotion of tenancies
- Community-based orders
- Street homelessness
- Eligibility for an allocation
- Possession proceedings and eviction
- Rehousing
- Criminal remedies
- Landlord's failure to take action
- Good practice
Home ownership
- Buying a home
- Introduction to leasehold
- Buy or extend lease or buy freehold
- Service charges
- Commonhold
- Buying LA and PRPSH housing
- Shared/low-cost home ownership
- What is shared/low-cost ownership?
- Conventional shared ownership
- HomeBuy in England
- HomeBuy in Wales
- First Time Buyers' Initiative
- Key Worker Living programme
- Other shared ownership schemes
- Cost of the schemes
- Staircasing
- Repossession
- Succession and shared ownership
- Subletting and shared ownership
- Variation of shared ownership leases
- Complaints
- Rental purchase
- Buying a mobile home
- Mortgage arrears: payment problems
- Mortgage arrears: court action
- Compulsory purchase orders (CPOs)
- Charging orders
Housing conditions
- Introduction to housing conditions
- Contractual rights
- Non-contractual rights
- Taking action on disrepair
- Problems during repairs
- Environmental Protection Act 1990
- Noise
- Assessing bad housing: HHSRS
- Safety in the home
- Asbestos
- Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
- Selective licensing
- Grants for improvements and repairs
- Overcrowding
- Energy performance certificates
Relationship breakdown
- Married/civil partners: sole owner
- Married/civil partners: joint owners
- Cohabiting couples: sole owner
- Cohabiting couples: joint owners
- Married/civil partners: sole tenant
- Married/civil partner: joint tenants
- Cohabiting couples: sole tenant
- Cohabiting couples: joint tenants
- Domestic violence
