The spending review announced plans to allow social landlords to charge
new social tenants intermediate rental contracts at rent levels of up to 80 % of market rates.
Not exact matches
The
new strategy included proposals to dramatically increase discounts under the Right to Buy scheme, with
social tenants being allowed discounts of up to 50 % of the value of their home, making home ownership more achievable.
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.
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.
Earlier this week, the government set out its comprehensive spending review (CSR) outlining plans to cut funding for
social housing by more than 60 per cent, with
new tenants in line to pay higher rents.
There's nothing
new in the police being able to force people to remove facemasks or in
social landlords evicting
tenants found guilty of looting.
He announced changes to the
social housing system: for existing
social tenants, rent levels will remain unchanged, but
new tenants will be offered intermediate rents at around 80 % of the market rent.
See also minutes of a 1970 meeting of the Woodside Housing
Tenant Council, in which middle - class
tenants objected to the declining
social class of
new residents, and unsuccessfully beseeched the Housing Authority to reinstitute home visits to applicants.
In
New York's Lower East Side a complex process of economic and
social reconfiguration is taking place, with upscale businesses and residences having moved rapidly into the neighborhood, often driving out its existing
tenants.
Marie was the first member of her family to attend university; she feels strongly about
social mobility and improving access to the Bar and plays an integral role within our Pupillage and
New Tenants Committee overseeing mini-pupillages and speaking at events organised by the Inns to encourage young people of all backgrounds to consider a career at the Bar.
Thus far, our
tenants are people separating from a long term relationship, leaving their parents» home for the first time, somebody here on temporary work assignment (which looks to maybe becoming permanent), somebody who just moved out here to take a
new job and isn't sure of where they want to live permanently and somebody who is recently disabled, but is waiting for
social assistance to come through and is living off of a 401k and needs to stay some place as inexpensive as possible to make her money stretch.
Tenants include the
New York State Department of State, the U.S.
Social Security Administration, the Securities Training Corporation and law firm McAloon & Friedman.