General Discussion
Thank you Michael - let's hope the 'potentially' becomes an actuality.
I don't have a problem with private landlords per se. Not at all. If people have property they want to rent out and other people want to rent it then fine, I can't see a problem. One person is offering on the open market what another person wants. What someone does with their own money is entirely up to them. No, what sticks in my craw is when private sector landlords have rents paid partially ...
@cheftallyrand - wheyhey! you're alive and, more to the point, kicking! howya doin? drop me an e-mail (don't want to be accused of hijacking this thread). hope everything has worked out okay for you. L
Actually Huw there is something to tell - and that who is, who is the 'we' that were approached, and which London Borough Council was it that asked about the housing stock? I just wondered if it was Newham as apparently they sent out a round robin concerning relocating people from that borough about a year or so ago. This link gives more info ...
From the Insitute for Public Policy Research: "Government is turning the facts about housing benefit on their head IPPR North , housing , personal finances Author(s): Bill Davies Published date: 26 Mar 2013 Source: Guardian - Housing Network To take a leaf from Roald Dahl's The Twits , we must stand housing finance on its head. The government's attempts ...
and I'm just about to post some more on the HB thread 'n all DJ. Go careful with your eyes!
I note that the claire wright link has comments concerning this rumour up to the day before the last set of local elections. Nothing since. Just co-incidence I am sure. This rumour has, apparently, been doing the rounds for some time. (I've made my own enquiries you see) I can find no reference to London boroughs looking to re-house people down here in that Guardian link you've posted. ...
Found this concerning movement in and out of Teignbridge by social housing tenants via Devon Home Choice. It is from a document presented to TDC's Overview and Scrutiny Committee in January of this year. "Registering only those with a local connection Analysis of Teignbridge statistics shows that approximately 20% of lets of social housing through DHC to date have gone to people moving ...
Well now, if the allegations you make on another thread were to be true then the issue of there not being enough social housing to go around could be resolved if open market housing were to get bought up by social landlords and then rented out at affordable rents (80% of market rents). Might be one way of reducing the housing benefit bill........
@HuwMatthews2 As you say yourself it is only hearsay. Which makes me wonder why you didn't check out its veracity before you posted what you did. You write " I expect the same thing to happen in Dawlish. A few months ago we were approached by a London Borough Council who wanted to a) buy our stock or failing that b) lease our stock en masse or failing that c) form a partnership with us ...
