Sentences with phrase «many social housing tenants»

«That's why the housing minister is going around the country, listening to social housing tenants.

They voted to review the bedroom tax and scrap its use against social housing tenants who didn't have an offer of a smaller property.

You only need to look at how hard many social housing tenants in London have fought to keep their homes to know that isn't a true representation of most areas.

Many campaigners had hoped that the tragedy at Grenfell would mark a change in attitudes towards social housing tenants.

«Residents, including social housing tenants, want to make big positive differences to their communities — and I want to put the powers in their hands to be able to do so.

What's much harder to fix is the attitudes towards social housing tenants that exist within local authorities and the chronic lack of housing available to those in need.

Social housing tenants can't do right for doing wrong.

When the government talks about its «pay to stay» policy, ministers usually point to all those greedy social housing tenants who earn mega bucks but continue living in a council house.

Social housing tenants are still being turfed out of London boroughs, so what will really change?

It's vital that all these people are provided with permanent decent housing - that this still hasn't happened is a national disgrace - but it is also vital that attitudes towards all social housing tenants and those in need of housing changes.

One proposed measure to try to achieve this is the «under - occupation penalty» for social housing tenants in the Welfare Reform Bill.

It results in social housing tenants losing 14 % of their housing benefit for one spare room; and losing 25 % of their housing benefit if they have two or more spare rooms.

Social housing tenants know all to well how often their concerns are dismissed.

Home ownership is a big commitment, and one not to be entered into lightly and we believe that the advice offered to social housing tenants will be crucial in preparing them for this transition.

The launch comes on the same day as the extension of the right - to - buy discount for social housing tenants.

Hated perhaps by unemployed social housing tenants in receipt of housing benefit.

The Department for Communities and Local Government said 90 % of social housing tenants would be unaffected by the policy.

Whether it's the young mothers who formed the Focus E15 campaign in Newham to protest against local families being shipped out of the area, or the residents of Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth who have fought tirelessly to stop the demolition of their much loved homes, social housing tenants across the capital have been speaking out about the desperate situations they've found themselves in.

They weren't because we live in a time where it is acceptable to ignore social housing tenants.

In the days and weeks after the Grenfell Tower fire, politicians and commentators repeatedly spoke of the need to start listening to social housing tenants.

Social housing tenants of working age will have their benefits reduced if they have a spare bedroom.

The government's so - called «bedroom tax», due to come into force from April, will affect around 660,000 social housing tenants across the country.

They include a reduction of benefit for social housing tenants of working age with spare bedrooms.

The measure would only apply to new council tenants at first but Ms Flint refused to rule out extending it to all social housing tenants.

In fifth place this week is a piece which looked at the government's plans to charge higher rents to social housing tenants earning over a certain amount.

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to give social housing tenants the chance to move to other parts of the country.

We see these campaigns run by social housing tenants across London and it gives us hope that if we support each other we can make a stand.

Although the aims of the campaigns vary, the one thing they have in common is a fight against councils or housing associations to protect the homes and rights of social housing tenants.

Mr George said he had moved «moderate» measures to exclude social housing tenants from the policy until they receive a «reasonable offer» of alternative accommodation with the «correct number of bedrooms».

Social housing tenants receive less benefits if they are deemed to have one, or more than one, spare room.

A disabled woman and her partner have written to Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith begging him to rethink plans to cut benefits for social housing tenants who are deemed to have a spare room.

The removal of the spare - room subsidy has meant a reduction in benefits to social housing tenants with homes deemed larger than necessary.

The lack of supply of affordable homes has a detrimental impact on the mobility of social housing tenants - many languish on transfer lists for more than two years.

Our recent research conducted by the Human City Institute investigated the social and economic costs of social housing tenants who want to move but can't.

People are willing to pay less for a property where social housing tenants live.

It is estimated this new system will effect up to 660,000 social housing tenants.

Policies vary from the emotive debate to end secure tenancy for life for future social housing tenants, via plans to financially reward councils that build new homes, to reforms to the housing benefit and planning system.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) say they do not want the new charges for social housing tenants with a spare room (the so - called «bedroom tax») to discourage people from becoming foster parents.

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.

While the DWP argues that social housing tenants who want to downsize could instead spend their housing benefit on private accommodation, there is already a major shortage of small, cheap private accommodation.

Osborne is expected to use his summer Budget to clampdown on taxpayer - funded subsidies for social housing tenants who earn more than # 30,000 per household, or # 40,000 in London, meaning they will have to pay a market or near market rent in future.

The building on the far left may be one of the blocks reserved for social housing tenants (Lucy Pasha - Robinson / Independent)

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.

The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.

And his introduction of the hated bedroom tax in 2013 hit hundreds of thousands of social housing tenants — many disabled.

Kerry Bretherton QC of Tanfield Chambers Has a long - standing reputation for public law and real estate litigation, and regularly acts on behalf of social housing tenants and homeless applicants.

Not exact matches

According to a report from Toronto - based social policy group the Wellesley Institute, «rooming houses are one of the most affordable private - market housing options for low - income tenants....

«Right to Buy landlords» include not only local housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public bodies.

Housing minister Grant Shapps justified his decision to hand more power to social tenants by arguing that more people had come out to clean up after the riots than participated in the violence.

Over a third of adults who live in social housing are aged 55 or older but it's no surprise that recent Ipsos Mori data places perceptions of social tenants as young and unemployed.