to think that the Goverment's plans for Social Housing are disastrous

[donkeyderby]

Are beloved Govt are talking about charging 80 - 90% of market rents for social housing.

I'm not in favour of ridiculously low rents for council tenants, but won't this simply place thousands more people in the Housing Benefit trap of not being able to afford to work?

Uncontrolled property prices have contributed significantly to our society of haves and have nots and private rental prices must be keeping so many people chained to Housing Benefit. The average price for a 3 bedroom property in our area is around the £1000 per month mark. How can that be affordable to someone on a low wage? Ditto £900 PCM.

How will this work apart from going back to some Victorian era of cramming families into one bedroom?

Gin anyone?

Yup; medical phrase there, like learning difficulties here.

Rumour has it ours is going from 480 a month which I think works out 111.62 a week and will be going to 103.56 which I think works out at about 445 a month.

I have currently been looking for something around the 500 mark which is impossible enough, let alone any lower!

Even houses offered to us on the council bidding are 112 a week, so are they going to lower council housing and HA rents?

I did reply sorry, cant ahve woprked (PC a bit ill I thnk!)

Rents going up aren;t they for LHA housing? There's something in yesterday's review about setting rents at a higher % of lcoal rents.

So if social housing is going up but LHA is going down, people won't even be able to afford to live there either.

It'll be IIRC about 20% lower than local rents so still a saving; LHA tends to be set at or around the social housing level so I doubt teh differential will be huge, esp. compared to private rents.

My guess is they want a return to the estates I grew up on where the vst majority of famillies were disabled, elderly or working poor. Which would be fine if they didn;t promote a capitalist model that relies entirely on the existence of a large, poor, unemployed population willing to accept any wage and hardship for money.