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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Where do you get that for on given the enormous shortfall in social housing of all sizes?
Fascinating how interested the government are in fairness when it comes to those on lower incomes and welfare and how utterly disinterested they are in it when it comes to higher incomes.
This government should feel so proud. For all its work the housing benefit bill continues to rise and the majority of new claimants during this parliament are in work.
Some might say a fairer thing to do is invest in social housing and allow housing associations and councils to borrow based on future rents, bringing costs down and leaving an asset rather than continuing to shovel our money to landlords.
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I thought that was the idea behind it? To free up larger properties for families?
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The fairness is that it is something that those in the private rented sector have had to deal with all along. People keep bitching about too little 1/2 bed social housing being built. Although in the area around me, quite a lot of 1/2 bed social housing has been built. It has been all too easy to put people in oversized housing, because the tenants didn't care about how the rent was going to be paid. The housing associations could build loads of unneeded 3/4 properties. Now they can concentrate more on building 1/2 bed properties, with demand for 3/4 bed ones being supplied by the ones freed up by people with spare bedrooms.
Housing associations are financed by central government and recycling rent money.