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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
How are you subsidising his or anyone else paying their full rent in social housing?
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Very simple.
If people in social housing earning enough to pay market rates, especially provided by the council, that extra funding to the council would go to building more social housing and help balance council budgets.
Instead we have many councils buckling under lower central funding and having to either cut services or tax people more. Subsidised rents are not free by any means, and the shortfall in money from them has to come from somewhere. We have a shortage of social housing primarily because there is no money to make more, so yes, people who can afford markets rates should pay them, so those who cannot (And there is a current 2 million waiting list for social housing remember) can have access to them.
Social housing should be more widely available, subsidised rents should be means tested.