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'bedroom Tax' - Anyone Agree With It?
The so called 'Bedroom Tax' starts today. Anyone receiving Housing Benefit (HB) who has a spare room will have their HB reduced.
Will it solve the housing shortage?
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Is it a cynical stealthy way to cut the benefits bill?
Will it solve the housing shortage?
or
Is it a cynical stealthy way to cut the benefits bill?
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even the tories have admitted, and believe me it must have taken a large pair of secateurs to get it out of them, that this is unlikely to make much difference and won't be cutting the welfare bill at all, if anything it's still going up.
Also that if people are made homeless because they can't pay the shortfall, then they will end up in B&B, which cost ten times that of rents, and that eventually they will have to be rehoused elsewhere... at more costs, as said hardly thought through, and not just because i am affected by it.
Also that if people are made homeless because they can't pay the shortfall, then they will end up in B&B, which cost ten times that of rents, and that eventually they will have to be rehoused elsewhere... at more costs, as said hardly thought through, and not just because i am affected by it.
Right to buy was a specific policy (which is what was being discussed here) brought in by the Tories in 1980.
Many people can't even get mortgages as their wage is too low, does that make them any worse a person than those who did buy? It seems some here think it does!
We can't even get a local authority house in our area, the council sold loads off in the 80s, then they sold the whole of the remaining stock to a housing association in 2000.
Many people can't even get mortgages as their wage is too low, does that make them any worse a person than those who did buy? It seems some here think it does!
We can't even get a local authority house in our area, the council sold loads off in the 80s, then they sold the whole of the remaining stock to a housing association in 2000.
people who own more than one home do not pay full council tax on them. so councils lose through rates, water charges, etc. our local village is 65% second homes and some are even worse. the price of houses locally ensures that no-on employed locally can afford to live away from home or have more than one room. i do know of families living like this. no chance of them being rehoused by the council and yet there are houses empty for the most part of the year all over the place and not contributing to the local economy. these visitors also tend to bring all their household goods with them ie food, etc., do not use the local shop so they do not see any benefit and that is the way a community dies. why not a hefty tax on these propeties? i think that is very unlikely as it is not the poorer people in society who own second plus homes.
Jordyboy9
// In the meantime, council house sales to tenants began to increase. Some 7,000 were sold to their tenants during 1970, but in two short years that figure soared to more than 45,000 in 1972.[2] //
That quote was about sales in London. It does not explain how you bought yours in Edinburgh.
// In the meantime, council house sales to tenants began to increase. Some 7,000 were sold to their tenants during 1970, but in two short years that figure soared to more than 45,000 in 1972.[2] //
That quote was about sales in London. It does not explain how you bought yours in Edinburgh.
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Lots of things don't effect me but I still have an opinion on them desktops. Social housing is there to support people through hard times and I agree that this is a good and necessary thing. However I don't agree that you should have a home bigger than you actually need when there are other families in bad situations also needing homes who are living in hostels. My view comes not from the stance of cutting benefits but thinking also about other people on the housing waiting lists.
I do also think that there needs to be more one bedroom properties for this to work effectively and I also believe that some thought needs to be given to the very elderly who a big thing like moving house could actually be detrimental to their health.
I do also think that there needs to be more one bedroom properties for this to work effectively and I also believe that some thought needs to be given to the very elderly who a big thing like moving house could actually be detrimental to their health.
I agree with the theory that if a couple have raised their children they should look at downsizing when they have surplus rooms, however I do think it needs exemptions for the disabled who have specially adapted houses that can take years to make suitable, by moving the council will have to fund further adaptions to a new property which will cost money. for the disabled these "spare" bedrooms are not spare at all, they are very much needed.
if you did put exemptions in for disabled this means that 80% of the people targetted for bedroom tax would be exempt, making even even less viable.
if you did put exemptions in for disabled this means that 80% of the people targetted for bedroom tax would be exempt, making even even less viable.
