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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 ...
This link gives info about the benefit cap. . https://www.gov.uk/benefit-cap
So, what are we saying here? That provided there is a cap on the maximum amount of HB payable that it is okay for private landlords to receive taxpayers' money if their tenants cannot meet the rent from their own pocket?
Just bought my copy of the Dawlish Gazette and read on page XI of the property page an article about a couple who recently bought one of the new build properties on the Cavanna development over by Secmaton Lane. The article talks about the couple and why it is that they chose to buy here. However, although they have chosen to live here it seems they choose not to shop here. The article ...
Been thinking for some time about maybe starting a thread about HB given how much taxpayers' money gets spent on it and how much the government says it needs to be reduced and stuff cos for years now it has really, really, really, riled me that private sector landlords,via HB, get shed loads of taxpayers' money given to them. Have property, rent it out, taxpayer will cough up the rent either in ...
