Sentences with phrase «on social housing tenants»

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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.

Firstly, there must be an immediate impact assessment on how the bedroom tax affects vulnerable tenants in both social and private rented housing.

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.

Decisions on how much to charge tenants are made by registered social landlords, following dialogue between local authorities and housing associations.

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 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.

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)

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.

This briefing paper explains how social housing providers and their tenants can work together on their estates to grow food.

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.

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.

Tamara has vast experience of all forms of Property law representing landlords and tenants as well as Lenders in proceedings ranging from standard possession claims to more complex issues of art 8 and unreasonableness, undue influence in mortgage fraud (Ertridge), Judicial Review and reasonableness of action on the part of social housing authorities, co-habitee and family resulting / constructive Trusts, injunctions and applications under s91 of the LPA 1925 to the High Court for orders for sale in mortgage possession proceedings.

@Dawn Anastasi money paid on behalf of the tenant is benefits because it is a form of social service they are receiving but it is also considered income when it comes to fair housing laws.