Housing Law Changes - What Do They Mean To You?

Control of housing changes

The new Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 201– looks set to come into effect by the end of this summer. As with the existing Housing law, it will continue to control occupation and ownership of property in Jersey. It remains to be seen how the law will work in practice, but it does seem as if it will make administration simpler while also giving greater rights to current "J" cats and non-qualifieds.

Housing categories

The cumbersome and lengthy categorisation of Housing qualifications will be replaced by four categories of residential status as follows:

Entitled – this effectively covers the current "A-H" and "K" qualifications. Entitled status can be obtained after 10 years' continuous ordinary residence. The current law entitles a person with such continuous ordinary residence to be absent from the Island on one occasion for a period of no more than five years without losing their qualifications. An improvement to the new