The housing disrepair industry has been getting used to a new kind of headline in recent months. There has certainly been no short supply of Covid-19 related articles that aim to find solutions to immediate problems such as how to attend client meetings, court cases and home site visits whilst in lockdown and avoiding the risk of spread.

What’s been largely overlooked, however, is how Covid-19 as well as other huge environmental events like global warming will impact the type of cases lawyers will be expected to take on in the future.

These seismic challenges – together with a long-list of new hazards brought to light through the Fitness for Human Habitation Act 2018 – are conspiring to shape a ‘new normal’ in the housing disrepair claims uk sector.

So, what kind of additional cases will the housing disrepair industry see more of in the future, that it may not have seen so much of in the past?

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