Quote:
Originally Posted by martyh
George Osborne is set to charge full market rent to social housing tenants who earn over £40,000 in London and £30,000 everywhere else .This is a ridiculous idea ,all it will do is encourage people to stay on a lower wage so they keep the lower rent ,exactly what happens with tax credits.He says he wants to end the practice of higher earners benefiting from cheap subsidised rents,my council rent is neither cheap nor subsised it is exactly where the local market says it should be as I suspect most areas will be simply because that is how the LA's and associations set their rent levels ,London possibly being the exception
The other issue is why the hell should a working person receiving no benefits pay more rent that his next door neighbour who is on the dole
http://news.sky.com/story/1513430/cr...-house-tenants |
As I have said previously, all council house rents should have had any subsidy removed the day that Housing Benefit began.
My reasons are that it is double provision and benefits the better off. Prior to the introduction of Rent Rebates (the forerunner to Housing Benefit for council tenants) rent subsidies were a form of help to those on low incomes as it was presumed that all those in social housing were of limited means.
Of course, that is not true today as you have stated yourself on many occasions. I suspect that this is more about you not wanting to lose a taxpayer funded perk than anything else.