Sentences with phrase «housing waiting lists»

They encounter long public housing waiting lists (as does the rest of the community), discrimination by the private rental market and due to low income, are not able to consider home ownership or private rental.

There are one or two refuges, extremely long public and community housing waiting lists and private rental is usually not considered an option due to an inability to afford it and / or racial discrimination.

Central government promotes it to those on social housing waiting lists, social tenants, homeless households, ex-service personnel, and others because it reduces the state's burden to those households and contributes to meeting housing need.

There is no denying the importance of building new homes — to promote health, jobs and social mobility — especially when some five million people languish on national housing waiting lists.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has defended controversial plans to charge social housing tenants for spare rooms in their homes, or ask them to move into smaller homes saying it will help those on social housing waiting lists, and families living in overcrowded homes.

With over a quarter of a million tenants living in overcrowded homes and 2 million on housing waiting lists, we need to end the spare room subsidy and ensure a better use of social housing.

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

«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.

No wonder house prices doubled, whilst social housing waiting lists rose by 500,000 families in ten years.

A general preference will be given to veterans and to persons on public housing waiting lists for all units.

«Government must build more social housing across the country to help those already on housing waiting lists and the many thousands more who will be in need as the recession bites.

«With home ownership in decline, rents rising rapidly and social housing waiting lists at a record high, it's time to face up to the fact that we have a totally dysfunctional housing market,» NHF chief executive David Orr said.

Clegg: «There are 1.7 million people on the housing waiting list and 1.5 million spare bedrooms.

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

My top priority is more housing, to help the 23,000 people on the housing waiting list.

At least 2,096 people in Wales have been on a housing waiting list for over ten years, figures published by the Welsh Liberal Democrats have revealed.

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.

This doesn't include the 168,000 Ontario households on the social housing waiting list.

Tenants may think the government is looking out for tenant interests, but if that was true there would be no pandemic housing shortage, multiple offers, outrageous selling prices, extremely low vacancy rates, high rental tenant property taxes and eight - year affordable housing wait lists.

Not exact matches

With so much damage, insurance payouts and repairs can take a long time (even with out of state companies, there's a long waiting list for them to get to the house), so it can take a year or more to get repairs.

I talked to my local authority yesterday and not only do they have no properties at all, but we have a huge waiting list for social housing, and the private rented sector is running incredibly hot as well, so where are these people to go?

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Nevertheless, Houston experienced a severe housing problem with half a million people paying more for housing than they could afford, a large homeless population and long waiting lists for public housing.

Subsidized housing may be available, but waiting lists are involved, so check it out early.

... supporting small businesses, helping people aspiring to buy their own home, reducing waiting lists, and easing upward pressure on rents and housing benefit bills.

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

Council house building, my council has applied and been given five council houses, the waiting list in my area is 3,800.

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.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

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.

Is there a Chinatown contact person to help new immigrants find housing or get on the waiting list at NYCHA or do they go through the «associations»?

REAL ESTATE — «Stringer: NYCHA apartments left vacant for years,» by Capital's Kelly Weill: «Low - income apartments run by the New York City Housing Authority are in high demand, with more than 270,000 applicants on the authority's waiting list.

When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

As of January 12, 2015, the Chemung County waiting list for Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) rental assistance is open.

Coupled with this is an ever - increasing waiting list for housing - currently one in 12 of all households in England are on a housing or transfer waiting list.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation intended to clear what one lawmaker said in June was a waiting list of 12,000 disabled individuals who needed services or housing.

Another problem Taylor cited is a waiting list for beds at «safe havens,» a kind of supportive housing that many adult homeless people favor — they don't have the kinds of curfews or mandates for drug or alcohol rehabilitation that some shelters require.

There are 212,510 families on the waiting list for an apartment — a testament to the high demand for affordable housing in an ultra-expensive city.

6,800 additional people are on the waiting list for section 8 vouchers - now referred to as the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program - which subsidize the renting from private landlords.

sadly labour has sod all to talk about with the social house building it did, people in my area on the priority waiting list may have to wait five or six years.

Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.

«With thousands of families on the waiting list for public housing and residents with critical pending transfer needs, managing and turning over our vacant apartments effectively and efficiently is vital to our operations,» a spokeswoman said.

Ms. Olatoye pointed out that the housing authority has a waiting list of 250,000 families and a vacancy rate of.7 percent, with only 5,000 units opening up each year.

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.

Positive word of mouth increases open house attendees, applications, incoming students, and waiting list lengths.

Christel House's reputation has helped it build up a waiting list of 300 students, which prompted it to consider starting a new school.

The House also would attempt to eliminate the waiting list for pre-kindergarten programs for at - risk 4 - year - olds by mid-2019, in keeping with Cooper's budget, although the House would use federal funds to do it, not state funds as Cooper has proposed.

If your client purchased a home in the GTA during the frenzied early months of 2017 and had not sold their home in advance, why did you wait to list their house?