Sentences with phrase «council house waiting»

The government claims that these new proposals will increase house building and reduced council house waiting lists, by replacing each social unit sold.

«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.

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Why does the single mother get the council house straightaway when the hard - working couple have been waiting for years?

And what about the estimated 1.7 million people on the waiting lists for a council house?

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The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

I saw myself young mothers at the top of a waiting list being over looked because the government instructed the council to look at immigrants and house them as a priority.

Cameron's plans would see statutory guidance issued to local councils demanding people live in the local area for two to five years before they are allowed on the waiting list for social housing.

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.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

CIVIC CENTER — Many elderly New Yorkers want the City Council to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial rezoning plan as is because they «don't have time» to wait for a long bureaucratic process to play out amid a housing crisis for seniors.

The head of the NYC Council's Public Housing Committee, Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will propose a new law requiring NYCHA to clean up all apartments with lead paint instead of waiting for tenants to move out.

However, the housing minister said new guidance to councils will enable them to help people who have been waiting the longest and those in rural areas who have strong local or family connections.

Councils fear this would increase housing waiting lists and push more people into the more expensive private rented sector.»

Meanwhile, we must remember that there are over 3,700 law - abiding families on the council's housing waiting list — no queues should be jumped.

New Labour continued the process, cutting the number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the number of households on the local authority waiting lists topping 1.8 million.

In R (on the application of Aweys) v Birmingham City Council and other applications [2007] EWHC 52 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 230 (Jan) the Court of Appeal dismissed the authority's appeal and held that, upon finding a homeless person to be unintentionally homeless, eligible and in priority need, the «main housing duty» under HA 1996, s 193 (2) arose immediately and that the discharge of this duty could not be met by leaving the applicants in their existing homes: «the homeless at home», which the authority considered no longer reasonable for them to occupy, while waiting for an offer of permanent accommodation under the allocation scheme.

A large percentage of council housing stock has been sold under the right to buy scheme, particularly in high value areas like Kensington and Chelsea, leaving the council short on housing stock with long waiting lists for council housing.