Sentences with phrase «of social tenants»

Expectations are that Chancellor George Osborne will argue that 9 % of all social tenants in England are now on higher incomes while enjoying the benefit of an average # 3,500 - a-year per household in reduced rent.

Whereas Labour have curtailed the right of social tenants to own their homes, we need to open up the housing market to the many, not just the few, by making it easier for social tenants to own or part - own their property.

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.

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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....

The office - sharing surge, the pod hotel and co-living trends, and social media companies as major tenants are all at the forefront of that transformation.

So you need to find anchor tenants who have authority in your field and who are respected by other angel investors in order to maximize the benefits of social proof.

Profits from Solms - Delta estate, which produces 30,000 cases of wine annually under labels such as Cape Jazz and Africana, allow the workers and tenants to pay for health care, school fees, and a social worker to tackle issues of alcoholism and domestic violence.

In social policy, the Party is committed to fighting poverty by gradually raising the minimum wage to $ 10 per hour, and indexing it to the cost of living thereafter; implementing rent guidelines and close loopholes around condo conversions to protect rental tenants; ensuring that provincial contracts and grants enable organizations to provide a living wage to employees.

«The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof (Ps 24:1); this can be carried so far even as to have practical consequences for human social organization, as in the principles underlying the law of Jubilee, that no human being can ever own land outright but must be regarded as a tenant installed by God (Lv 25:1 - 34).

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.

«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 bodies.

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.

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.

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.

Therefore many social tenants will be able to meet the cost of the mortgage after allowing for the discount.

Aside from the social aspects the tax fails on practicability because in most areas there is a shortage of affordable rented housing to which tenants could downsize.

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.

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

OMH will also provide debt service payments on a portion of the permanent loan and will provide $ 857,800 in annual funding for on - site social services for the Supportive 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Progressive thinktank the Fabian Society argues that tenants in born in the 1970s are suffering under a form of social apartheid completely alien to their post-war predecessors.

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

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.

Community: Progressive Caucus Alliance, Planned Parenthood, Tenants PAC, Association of Social Workers, and many education, community and religious leaders

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».

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

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.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide funding through its Continuum of Care Program for onsite social services and rental subsidies for tenants in supportive housing units.

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.

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Sensing a limited window of opportunity, a number of special interests are investing heavily in the Senate battle, with charter school advocates and real estate interests backing the Republicans, and teachers» unions, tenant advocates and social progressives — led by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — siding with the Democrats.

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.

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.

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.

Chancellor George Osborne looks set to cut the amount of social housing cash available to council and housing association tenants, according to reports.

Whereas in 1975 more than 80 % of housing subsidies were supply - side subsidies intended to promote the construction of social homes, by 2000 more than 85 % of housing subsidies were on the demand side aimed at helping individual tenants pay the required rent.

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

But Murphy collects more than $ 400,000 a year directly from the Onondaga County Department of Social Services, which sends him rent payments for tenants on public assistance.

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.

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