{"id":1166,"date":"2013-11-20T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:24:54","slug":"welsh-housing-bill-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/welsh-housing-bill-published.html","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Housing Bill Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the BBC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/index.php?cmd=videos&amp;prod=lpm\">landlords<\/a> in Wales will shortly have to contend with the intricacies of a Housing Bill, which will be the first one published by the Welsh Government. The government first released a White Paper in 2012, a document setting out exactly what it planned to include in its bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Proposals in Welsh Housing Bill<\/strong><br \/>\nKey elements of the new Housing Bill likely to include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Landlord register \u2013 The government plans to make all landlords sign a mandatory landlord register before they are allowed tenants in their properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Increased Council Tax on empty properties \u2013 Local authorities will be given the power to impose a higher level of Council Tax on any properties empty for more than one year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tackling Homelessness and Rogue Landlords<\/strong><br \/>\nThe government hopes that the new Housing Bill will tackle the problem of empty houses, of which there are many. In turn this should go some way towards resolving the issue of family homelessness in Wales. The government also wants to reduce the numbers of rogue landlords operating in Wales\u2014these people will be targeted under the new legislation. According to the White Paper published last year, landlords will be forced to sign a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.creating_property.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlord<\/a> register, which should help to cut down the number of vulnerable tenants being ripped off by unscrupulous sharks in the private housing sector.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the new Welsh Housing Bill proves to be successful remains to be seen. Only time will tell, but the Government has been vocal about its determination to provide homes for all families by the end of the decade and it is believed that this will be included in the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the BBC, landlords in Wales will shortly have to contend with the intricacies of a Housing Bill, which will be the first one published by the Welsh Government. The government first released a White Paper in 2012, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/welsh-housing-bill-published.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}