Lifetime Social Housing Tenancies

Who is undeserving of secure, affordable housing?

Quite, the current system is works in the same way as saying that because I might need a referral to a food bank today, I instantly get a ticket to go and pick up food for life from regardless of what happens to me. Which is at the cost of someone else who might need the help in the future.

The point is about personal circumstances affecting lifetime tenancies, and there being millions of people who are deserving of social housing than some who aren't.

Might stick my kids school reports on here too, make sure the tax payers agrees that their education is money well spent.

The post you quoted was about the personal circumstances of SH tenants.

So presumably your personal medical problems are up for debate too. I mean, did you even need to call the doctor, should your reasons be anyone else's business?

Does that include private renters who get help with rent? Does it also include people who are in temporary accommodation that also work. Does it include people on a low wage so get in work benefits via uc.

At this rate everything is going to be the business of the tax payer.😅

Yup and pile on single people in large four bed homes because they don’t want to move. Because it’s ’their’ house even though technically it isn’t. The whole thing is broken.

We are allowed to comment on how we think the NHS should in the same we can can comment on social housing works. If I was to write a post about how it is difficult to get a medical appointment no one would say it is none of my business and the doctor can just do what they like. Although the people on this thread would presumably just think I was envy for those who had appointments.

How is that what she's saying?
My mother's council rent is less than half what it would be on the open market. If your rent is doubled you have to work twice as hard to pay it. That's not saying my mother doesn't work hard but technically she doesn't HAVE to work as hard as I do.

Excellent, hope you run your medical appointments by all the tax payers so we can see if our money should be spent on your health. Make sure it's really worth it.

If social housing tenants circumstances are everyone's business because 'tax payers'(?) then let's apply that to everything, shall we.

It's social housing. Provided by the state. If you won't want people to have an opinion buy your own house. We can all have an opinion on how public assets should be used.

When I got my Social Housing (which came with a lifetime tenancy), I was a single mother working 2 jobs with only 4 days off a MONTH (the weekends DD wasn't with her dad). How dare you imply that we are all just doing the bare minimum when it comes to work.

No. No they aren't.

Oh and the personal circumstances of people in HA and council houses are sod all to do with you

Yes, they are.

You are so pissing ignorant its untrue.

Both me and dp worked. Full time. I am also disabled to boot. But I had 2 dc. I went back to work early both times as I earned more.

You can put your daily mail down at any time you know.

Oh and the personal circumstances of people in HA and council houses are sod all to do with you

Yes @RowsOfFlowers What a rude and arrogant assumption. That people who do not have social housing work much harder than those who do.

All the LOLz! 😂

Nothing wrong with MY reading comprehension dear. I think you are the one with THAT issue. My post responded exactly to what the OP is going on about!

I don't what fairyland council you are under, but here - lifetime doesn't exist anymore.

5 years flexible rolling over.

Keep stirring.

Why do you think people in social housing don’t work hard? Many, many tenants are working. Social housing isn’t just for the unemployed.

If people are made to leave their SH if they start earning x amount, then where is the incentive for those people to take on a better paid job? Nobody is going to take a job that may ultimately mean they lose their home....anyone who says they will is. IMO, a liar. Why should those in SH be made to feel like they are not worthy of anything more that a MW job? Me and DP live in SH and have a combined income of just under £50k. We are too old for a mortgage (not that we could afford one anyway), and I refuse to spend my retirement years with the stress of private renting where I am at the whim of the landlord when it comes to tenancy renewal.

MN is a weird place when it comes to SH tenants. On the one hand (according to MN), everyone working more than MW or have no DC living at home should move out and on the other, nobody wants to live near a HA/Council estate because it's full of dodgy people who are "to lazy to get a job" and have feral offspring. Either you (generic "you"), want such estates to be made up of decent folk both in work or not, or you're ok with entire estates being full of people unable/unwilling to work.

Direct you're anger towards those that have made any housing other than SH more expensive because, shock, horror, it's not those living in HA/Council properties that have caused private rents and mortgages to increase to the level they are now.

You must be one of those who think social housing is “free”.

I’m not picking on you for having an opinion, I’m disagreeing with you on the internet. I am a twenty three year old young woman and even I have learned by this point in my life how to handle anonymous disagreements, that have no bearing on my real life or anyone else’s. I would say you have actually been quite rude and aggressive to several people (I’m not counting myself because I know you believe yourself to be a victim of heinous bullying by me, I mean several posters who have just expressed an opinion contrary to your own) on this thread, but as far as I can tell, you’re the only person who is reporting others to Mumsnet.

What on earth are you on about? How can lifetime tenancies in social housing NOT be to do with anyone who pays tax?

@RowsOfFlowers You started a thread about a subject that’s nothing to do with you just to poke a certain situation with a stick and got your fingers burned in the process.