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Another Cameron Era Policy Dropped - "Pay to Stay"
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38058402
Wonder when Cameron & Osborne will be finally airbrushed out of history?
Wonder when Cameron & Osborne will be finally airbrushed out of history?
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It was. I know family in social housing where the parents work all hours possible plus beg for more overtime because one of the children is high up in the GB ranks for possibly making it to the Winter Olympics and eventually turn pro, but funding support for coaches and extensive travel is zilch if you are not a recognised 1-2-3 medal hope.
They will be glad to see more of the shyte announced by Osborne chucked in the bin.
Whereas before it would have been mandatory
But was it right for example that Bob Crowe ( he has now died and I am not picking on him just using as an example ) was in a council house paying the same rent as a struggling single parent or low income family whilst he was on £145 k per year plus other benefits ? There are others on very high incomes who admittedly were not originally but is it not fair that if they want to stay in a house they care about that now that they can more than afford it then have to pay closer to a market rent.
This does not have to be implemented to everyone on a salary of over whatever is decided ??? as they may have kids or special requirements etc so the money gets used up but it could be means tested. We are short of social housing and I don't think it is fair that people who are now doing very well should be able to choose to stay and pay no more whilst others go without a home or struggle on low incomes.
Then the fair solution is to build more social housing, not to promote division and hostility.
Crow was paying full rent, most of his neighbours would probably have been getting at least some housing benefit.
They've scrapped a proposal to extend it to pensioners as it would cost too many votes - oops be unfair to people who have worked all their lives.
Dont think its been scrapped yet, but it is being delayed for a year. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjIpLH--bvQAhVlGsAKHb_tBGYQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fpolitics%2Fgovernment-backtracks-on-a-new-bedroom-tax-which-is-set-to-hit-thousands-of-poorer-pensioners-a7430586.html&usg=AFQjCNG975EWjocBkOk3usmHqZcG6BVweg But it does need scrapping as this will cost more money, and will cause lots of problems for the people effected and thier families
I can see your point, but if social housing is only reserved for those most in need, then the invevitable outcome is concentrations of high deprivation. It's not really ideal to have areas where almsot all the residents are desparately in need. That leads to all sorts of problems. Better, I think, that there should be a mix of tenants in this sort of housing, but that will require more of it.
The solution to that is to have mixed housing whereby social and non-social housing are in the same neighbourhood as opposed to those who can afford to live in non-social housing living in it.
Unfortunately, a lot of people of oppose having social housing built near to them.
Perhaps but then a lot of people oppose having HS2 built near them but it is still happening.