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So the Renters' Rights Bill completed Parliament today. It has taken some time and I think we've forgotten what an important and really substantial piece of legislation it is. A huge and valuable change is coming (even if we don't know exactly when yet).

These are important points but maybe it's right to add two things - first, the use of s 21 became much more regulated over the last 20 or so years; and, secondly, this is a 250pp+ Act doing an awful lot more than just the s 21 point. Its ramifications are going to take a while to work through.

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Interested to know whether the person who designed the bike rack on GWR trains (presumably others) had actually ever ridden or owned a bike #nightmare @gwr.com

Understanding University Finances ... a very short guide

This anon piece is as good as people are saying, but I'll summarise here for those of you interested in Higher Education but with no time:
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...

20mph is a proven success that paid for it's implementation inside a year with reduced fatalities and injuries.
We have many 20mph zones in England already. Time to make it the default.
Ideally reduce all speed limits by 10mph, with the possible exception of motorways.

Ruined by the exclamation mark imho

@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere.

It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.

Awaab’s Law ‘phase 1’, electrical certificates and an investigation into claims management companies. - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment In a written announcement today – 25 June 2025 – the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has laid out the implementation of ‘phase 1’ of Awaab’s Law, with regulations bein...

A quick post on the announcement of the phase 1 Awaab’s Law regulations on social landlords’ duties on damp and mould, with timescales for action - from 1 October 2025, electrical safety and a ‘call for evidence’ into housing conditions claims farmers practices.

nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/06/awaa...

📢 Important news for the social housing today with the first phase of Awaab's Law and electrical safety regulations laid before parliament

Here's a thread with our reaction and the links you need to find out more ⬇️🧵(1/5)

Awaab’s Law: Consultation on timescales for repairs in the social rented sector - government response

And the consultation response www.gov.uk/government/c...

Awaab’s Law: Draft guidance for social landlords

Draft guidance for Awaab’s Law www.gov.uk/government/p...

Vulnerable people given greater access to social housing New changes to remove local connection rules for young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse to access social housing.

New changes to remove local connection rules for young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse to access social housing.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Rental growth by UK nation since 2015. Title reads: Private rents have increased by 31% (up £300/ month) since 2020, compared to a 12% increase (up £100/ month) in the preceding five years

Todays rental price statistics show the rate at which rents in the private rented sector have been increasing in recent years is out of control.

Since Jan2020 rents have shot up by £300 a month, up 31%, over 2.5x the rate of growth in the preceding 5 years (12% growth)

Am really struck by the way enforcement is defined in the Renters' Rights Bill as either imposing a financial penalty or instituted criminal proceedings, so that informal means of enforcement won't be enough to satisfy the new duty to enforce. Will be interesting to watch how it plays out!

Just going to leave this here ...

@richardmoorhead.bsky.social you too?

Some themes from second session - paper by Tom Guiney and Harry Annison. Added to methodological questions raised in other two papers and ideas from agnotology and Relational legal consciousness #whatsnottolike

At the @clscardiff.bsky.social workshop on Dysfunctional Government - crisis, scandal, tragedy, emergency. First session on housing crisis, now into second session. Brilliant, exciting, innovative ways of thinking interdisciplinarily.

We have four papers on the housing crisis in session 1 ...

Thanks for flagging, Ed, as our crisis workshop starts in a couple of hours - quick read beforehand!

The EU Free Market Does Not Extend to Citizenship

My blog on yesterday’s EU Court judgment outlawing “commercial” selling of EU citizenship verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-free-... at @verfassungsblog.de

I remember it so well. Stunning houses and homes.

Hoarders A blog providing information about housing law and policy in Wales, written by expert commentators

I blogged it on the Wales Housing Law and Policy blog wondering if the outcome would be different in Wales:
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

Green party candidate tries to evict Labour opponent from property Labour says move is hypocrisy since Greens support ban on no-fault evictions such as one served on Labour candidate and her family

Finally, a potential use for Quennell v Maltby?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My fab colleague @danielwincott.bsky.social discussing policy studies for socio-legal studies to provide a cri de coeur at the end of a brilliant #slsa2025 #newproject #twopapersnotone

Just leaving these beauties here.

Early postcard view of roundabout and housing in Sea Mill estate

🚨 New on Substack: Bristol’s Interwar Council Housing: John Betjeman described 'a surprising beauty showing off in the evening sunlight; and vistas of trees and fields and pleasant cottages' in the Sea Mills estate.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/bristols-i...

Ah, but behind in so many other ways. Our magnolia is merely budding while others are in glorious flower. A joyful time of year (even though s 188(3)s are also in the air).