Council House tenants ?

Telescopi said:
Are those your rental properties or something? A market has a range of prices, well done for not being at the bottom.
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our LHA allowance on them is 320, 392, 464, 640, 980, we aim on Fair rents and Decent Homes standards, and yes, I have a lot of these in Stoke, all semi's, all refitted.
The example you used, erm, nicely, have you ever been down that street?
 
yes Joshy, we have, have you thought of moving out into private/ might be worth a look? if your on LHA or HB? Check your family size allowance and go have a look.
And agree with you about London, but we're mainly houses here, were as you, constricted sheerly by means of space, capital city etc, are more flats?
 
Joshy said:
And what about low income workers who simply would not be able to afford their rent if it was market rate? Would you prefer them to jack in their jobs and go 100% on benefits?

Like I said, subsidised rent for workers is the lesser of two evils.
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Then subsidised rent just skews both the property market and the job market, by allowing some people to rent more than they can afford, they both push rental prices up and keep wages in the area artificially low.

Great policy that is, not at all an example of the law of unintended consequences...
 
but how? now then, if the Councils spent their right to buy money on building more social housing, then they wouldnt desperately need people like me to house their needy families would they? Do you think my rents are expensive? 'Cos I dont look,, at the cost of the houses to begin with.
 
Dolph said:
In which case we have clear evidence that housing benefit skews rental costs and needs to be dramatically reformed ;)
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It does indeed, and is one of the proposed changes... i.e the one that will see half of London evicted, and moving up North apparently :p

But the reformation of housing benefit, is an entirely different subject to the one the OP started.

Simply put people in council houses != housing benefit recipients
 
BENJAMIN HERBLE said:
but how? now then, if the Councils spent their right to buy money on building more social housing, then they wouldnt desperately need people like me to house their needy families would they? Do you think my rents are expensive? 'Cos I dont look,, at the cost of the houses to begin with.
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The problem is councils weren't allowed to keep their Right To Buy Money, it all went to central Government coffers. The whole RTB system was a shambles from a housing perspective, but Thatcher knew exactly what she was doing when she introduced it.
 
Wow feel the hate!

I live in a council flat with my wife who was given a 1 bed flat when she was a key worker; she always paid full rent and we still continue to pay full rent , plus all the other bills like everybody else has too, i.e. neither of us has ever been on the dole or were spongers of any kind as seems to be the implication of this thread if you happen to live in a council house.

Granted the rent is about 30% cheaper than market rate but within that rent repairs etc are covered just like any other landlord/tenant situation; they are not free. Tax payers do not subsidise tenants of council flats who pay the full rent as far as I'm aware they only subsidise those who receive council and housing benefit.

Instead of people dissing council tenants as being selfish and what not you should first look at the failed housing market and why so many people in the UK need social housing because they cannot afford to either get a mortgage or to pay relatively extortionate private rents (especially in the south where I live).

Again the tory right has succeeding in blaming all the faults of modern society on either the poor or those who have had/still have state help. I suggest all those people who don't like social tenants continuing to live in their property after they earn some money should in a collective sense of social justice give back all their tax credits, child benefit, pension tax and nursery vouchers:)

On another note how many people do you think who have private landlords or indeed mortgages receive state help? I suspect many; if so do you think that these people should be removed from their properties? Or do you believe it is fair that the taxpayer then has to subsidise private landlord and banks at a far higher rate then they would in paying for subsidised social property. Also whay do you think would happen if you moved out all those people who pay full council rent out of their properties and replaced them with people who couldn;t afford to pay any rent? Guess what the government would end up having to pay.

The views expressed are far too simplistic. A property which people live in regardless of how it is come by is a home; they are the hub of family life, a base where people can build for the future. As soon as you start forcibly shifting people out of them, be it physically or by creating "daily mail" laws the quicker this country will destruct.
 
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singist said:
OP does not have a clue!

Go do some research (not asking mates down the pub) and come back. FFS!
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Oh dear !!! I came onto this forum ASKING about it. If I had the facts, why would I post ????

I'm sorry to invade your forum singist, please make your rules clearer before people post :D
 
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