Crackdown on 'rich' council house tenants

Originally Posted by Chad

I've been trying to find clear information on this today following the budget without much success. Is this effecting the whole of the UK or just England and Wales?

Actually I think he saw sense and left things as they are

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Chad

I've been trying to find clear information on this today following the budget without much success. Is this effecting the whole of the UK or just England and Wales?

If it's not devolved it affects everywhere.

[Pierre]

Well I asked MartyH at least twice now whether he pays the market rate for his property and he hasn't answered. Make your own mind up.

Bleat, bleat , bleat.

[Bulky]

Originally Posted by martyh

Actually I think he saw sense and left things as they are

Lucky for you your rent won't be going up then

Originally Posted by Pierre

Well I asked MartyH at least twice now whether he pays the market rate for his property and he hasn't answered. Make your own mind up.

Bleat, bleat , bleat.

I did ,in the very next post to your question ,which you would know if you bothered to read any of the posts

I await your next snide remark with interest

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Bulky

Lucky for you your rent won't be going up then

Damn, damn, damn!

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Well I asked MartyH at least twice now whether he pays the market rate for his property and he hasn't answered. Make your own mind up.

Bleat, bleat , bleat.

simple answer is no by his own admission he pays almost £200 per month less than the market rate .
but in his mind the council check the local going rent totally disregard it and give him a house £200 CHEAPER
i'm sure he will now get nasty call me names and try to change his evolving statements again but facts is facts .

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by martyh

I did ,in the very next post to your question ,which you would know if you bothered to read any of the posts

I await your next snide remark with interest

Pay the market rate then and stop whinging.

---------- Post added at 08:42 ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 ----------

Originally Posted by papa smurf

simple answer is no by his own admission he pays almost £200 per month less than the market rate .

Not for much longer thanks to Gorgeous George

[Gavin78]

I pay £360 for mine a month, property is worth around or sells for around 80k-92k

So would the council class that as market value or the price they would sell it to me for which would be around 48k-54k

[richard s]

Good job you don't live in the south house prices are stupidly high. Those who can afford the market value are people who cannot afford the deposit on the modest £230K two bed houses. There are also lots of private estates being built which only 10% have to be council/housing association builds, some of these are part buy part rent as well.

Tory social engineering at its best.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by richard s

Good job you don't live in the south house prices are stupidly high. Those who can afford the market value are people who cannot afford the deposit on the modest £230K two bed houses. There are also lots of private estates being built which only 10% have to be council/housing association builds, some of these are part buy part rent as well.

Tory social engineering at its best.

can they afford the bus fare up north you could get 4 two bed houses for that money

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Chad

I've been trying to find clear information on this today following the budget without much success. Is this effecting the whole of the UK or just England and Wales?

The reference I saw just mentioned London and the rest of England. I don't know about Scotland but my guess is the Welsh government will not enforce this, they will reduce services further to raise the additional revenue.

[RichardCoulter]

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.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

can they afford the bus fare up north you could get 4 two bed houses for that money

Not much use if you are 200+ miles from your job tho.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Not much use if you are 200+ miles from your job tho.

we do actually have work in the north and although the wages my be lower than that london or that down south so is the cost of living