Westminster council to charge high earning council tenants higher rents

[DillyDaydreaming]

Good idea?

Haven't thought it completely through but I would think this is right and fair.
The families they are looking at are earning over £50k and a small number are on over £100k.

Why would it put people off trying to earn higher salaries - these families will comfortably afford a "small increase" in rent which could be ploughed back into social housing.

So - is this a good thing?
What's your opinion?

Mr Crow's income is increasing each year

Yes, the link shows how it is growing and I think the dates in my original note show how it grows over time. He certanily isn't someone who should have subsidised housing. I don't even agree with them paying double the social housing rates. If they earn enough to rent privately they shoudl move out of the social housing and let all those people with very very low incomes into it.

I don't give a toss how Bob Crow is housed. He might not be in the demographic that social housing is intended, principally, to benefit but good policy will never be based on extreme cases.

There is a big difference between what people "should" do in a given set of circumstances and what it would be right or just to force them to do.