Uk Chancellor Plans To Raise Social Rents To Boost Affordable Housebuilding

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The poor being hammered yet again

https://www.ft.com/content/e2546c45-126e-4093-b420-05cbfd54347a

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/21/social-housing-rents-to-rise-uk-affordable-housebuilding-rachel-reeves

 

[naomi24]

Those living on benefits will be alright.  Labour - the party of the non-working.

[jackthehat]

So, the benefits bill will increase - those having their rents paid via benefits won't be affected but the rest of us taxpayers will have to absorb the difference.

And many people who live in Social housing are minimum wage earners so will be hit hard, too.

[ToraToraTora]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

.... those poor saps probably voted Labour!

[naomi24]

I'm sure they did - and all cheered when they got their wish.

[ToraToraTora]

JTH: "And many people who live in Social housing are minimum wage earners so will be hit hard, too." - they will just conclude that they may as well be on the rock and roll. WSS bill goes up, more dosh needed from the ever diminishing few that actually create wealth. Yep It's definately real Labour!

[jackthehat]

The Affordable Housebuilding project needs to be both simplified and tightened up.

Empty buildings need to be re-purposed as housing before we start using the countryside.

The big house-builders need to scrutinised to make sure they stop wriggling out of their '10% provision' commitments - something that happens far too often and goes without sanction.

There should be incentives for small/medium developers to create new from old dwellings before Rachel Reeves starts hammering those who are least able to afford it.

[Auntypoll]

There are more people working and getting benefits than not working. I have staff that won't work more than 16 hours a week because it will affect their benefits. One candidate for a £13 per hour vacancy with staff bonuses and a pension scheme refused the job because it was 24 hours a week and she would lose benefits. This needs addressing, it was a conservative government that brought in the current benefit laws. Many people on universal credit are not poor starving families, they are people who know how to work the system and are lazy!

[ToraToraTora]

13:15, I agree auntypoll we have always been too soft on WSS. The whole free money for doing burger all scheme  needs looking at.

[ladybirder]

I agree AP as my Dil has the same problem.  

[Hopkirk]

I know people who have council houses for historical reasons. They live the life of Riley with cheap rent.

[jackthehat]

Mrs JtH was stunned at the amount of obvious fraudulent claims she had to overlook when she worked for Universal Credit.

Anything under £5000 had to be let through - it was assumed that the relevant fraud departments would sort it out later. I wonder quite how much was recovered/written off?

Successive governments seems to just tinker at the edges (and in a bad way) rather than sorting the system out at a fundamental level.

[ToraToraTora]

It's even worse now, they are terrified of being Labelled racist so it's open season. Oh and yes this is the tories too, they also are terrified of the "R" word.

[fender62]

i know people who have a council house, children grown and left, and just get by financially and both work, 0 benefits, what go on benefits and pack both their jobs in, labour seem to be on the side of the unemployed and feckless..what next..give their house up to fully unemployed..

[davebro3]

//Many people on universal credit are not poor starving families, they are people who know how to work the system and are lazy!//

Twas ever thus - a guy in our local boozer in the 60s brought up his family on benefits from cradle to grave. Knew more about the system than those administering it.

[youngmafbog]

Robber Reeves is going some isnt she.

I am reminded of the Monty Python sketch steals fro the poor gives to the rich:

 

[jourdain2]

OH, now 91, applied for attendance allowance last year.  He's 91, has a triple-heart bypass and big leg circulation problems; malignant skin cancer; sleep apnoea; low blood pressure and is now almost stone deaf.  In other words, he's best not left alone for too long.  In addition, I have to dress lesions, sometimes change leg compression bandages in case of leaks, give eyedrops and medication and act as an alarm call for phone etc. - or even fire alarm. 

His application was turned down - didn't need enough attendance... he does walk the dog every day to maintain his health, so others are worse off, I suppose.

P.S. The temp. in the house needs to be at least 21C during Winter (often higher if damp and cold) ........   guess what..........? £300 disappeared - just like that!

What do you have to do? How bad do you have to be to get some help these days?  We never have had any benefits so I suppose that makes it harder to get on the system. We just shrugged our shoulders when he was turned down and got on with it; but the Winter fuel cut will hurt.

[Auntypoll]

Jourdain, surely his application for winter fuel payment was turned down because he was not in receipt of qualifying benefits. Does he not get PIP? I understood that under the state pension age you had to be eligible through certain benefits, but  after pension age it was or will now be means tested.