"so Sorry To Hear Of Your Sad Loss...oh, By The Way - Get Out Of Your Family Home!"

[sp1814]

When I first read this, I thought it was a bit wrong...but then I thought about it for a minute...why should adult dependents 'inherit' their parents' council houses after they die?

Shouldn't this housing stock go to those who are more deserving?

Like illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers?

(I'm KIDDING already...)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-to-strip-children-whose-parents-die-of-right-to-stay-in-their-council-home-a6767846.html

Your thoughts?

[Peter Pedant]

as a private landlord none of my tenants children have successon rights

[Dahlia_Lama]

Council houses shouldn't be handed down to family as a right.
Buy a house if you want to do that.

[Ellipsis]

Goes along with removing hereditary peerages ...

[pixie374]

I don't think they should be handed down either.

[ummmm]

I'm on the fence.

[Psybbo]

Nor do I unless one is a carer and has nowhere else to go, I hasten to add I am not in that position

[pixie374]

It just says they have to prove they would normally be entitled to it, so they could stay if they needed to. It isn't an automatic kick out.

[tonyav]

“This amendment [changes] the succession rules. Where a person other than a spouse or partner inherits a periodic tenancy, it will be converted into a 5 year fixed term.


At least they will get 5 years to find somewhere else to live.

[sp1814]

tonyav

There's a caveat to that though:

“Where a person other than a spouse or partner inherits a fixed term tenancy, it will not automatically be renewed when it comes to an end.”

I hadn't realised that people in social housing could have a fixed term tenancy. From the sounds of it, it's those people who should be worried.

They would have to meet council criteria to be rehoused, and if the tenant is a single person without dependents, they're pretty much screwed.

[tonyav]

They would have to meet council criteria to be rehoused, and if the tenant is a single person without dependents, they're pretty much screwed.


Yep, pretty much I'd say.

[Togo]

Moral of story. If you are living in council accommodation with elderly parents or relatives, invoke your right to buy.

[anotheoldgit]

Regarding you quip "Shouldn't this housing stock go to those who are more deserving like illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers"?

It already does, and they do very nice out of it according to this report.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155726/Somali-family-benefits-handed-keys--2million-luxury-council-home-Londons-affluent-streets.html

[AliceTickband]

Togo.....that's all very nice, but what if the 'child' cannot afford to buy?

[zebo]

In the avenue where my mother lived there were a number of houses occupied by tenants who had been there years and their free-loading, working offspring yet the rent was the same for all the houses.

[anotheoldgit]

zebo

That is why the Poll Tax was such a good idea.

[cactusdriver]

@aog

I've just fallen off my chair - you shoudn't say things like that without fair warning!

[dannyk13]

The idea behind this is to stop the practice of e.g one dependant being given a three or four bedroomed house,which makes sense IMO.

[zebo]

Brave man aog!