Sentences with phrase «bedroom council house»

I look around at the Polish people who now live in council houses around me, one lad lives in a three bedroom council house on his own, yet the lady who has been waiting for five years with her kids, is still waiting.

She lived with her parents in a four - bedroom council house and, when her father died a decade ago, she cared for her mother and sang in the church choir.

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Ministers have vowed to press ahead with their «bedroom tax» on under - occupied council housing, after yet another government defeat in the Lords.

If it's not British single mums having kids just to get a council house, it's a family of asylum seekers being housed in some million pound five bedroom property in London.

Greg Watson (far right) director of HCR's NYC regional office, joins Former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., HANAC Board of Directors Chairwoman Evangeline Douris, Borough President Helen Marshall and Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. for a ribbon - cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the George T. Douris Tower, a 15 - floor, 183 - bedroom affordable senior housing complex In Astoria, Queens.

From April, working - age people renting from councils or housing associations face losing up to a quarter of their housing benefit if officials decide they have more bedrooms than they need.

«As well as the expense, it led to the absurd situation whereby we were funding a million spare bedrooms at the same time as hundreds of thousands of other families were living in overcrowded homes — with even more on council housing waiting lists.

The Discretionary Housing Payments fund, which critics have called a «bedroom tax», would see people having their benefits reduced if they are deemed to have a empty bedroom in their council or housing associatioHousing Payments fund, which critics have called a «bedroom tax», would see people having their benefits reduced if they are deemed to have a empty bedroom in their council or housing associatiohousing association home.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

The attack on Rent Rebates, has not made Landlords lower their rents.I have seen no sign of it anyway.The fair way, would have been a fair rents cap.Not a bedroom tax, because the Tories sold all the housing stock they could.Most ex council houses are now in the hands of private landlords.You should have tackled those who have more than one home, its obscene that someone can buy a holiday home in a village, and villagers have to move out.

The statistics emerged ahead of a raft of controversial changes to the benefits system which will come into force this week - including the «bedroom tax» which sees council and social housing tenants facing reductions to their benefits if they have empty rooms in their homes.

One in three council tenants affected by changes to housing benefit under the so - called «bedroom tax» have fallen behind with their rent, according to the TUC.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

In 1998 the applicant and his wife were granted a joint tenancy of a three bedroom house by Birmingham City Council.