Sentences with phrase «private rented housing»

The strategy aims, in part through the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Bill, to create a more focused regulatory system for the private renting sector, more flexibility and stability and better quality housing and tenancy management for private renters while expanding this housing sector.

It also considers changes in benefits and tax credits, insecurity in private rented housing and how the stress of trying to keep on top of finances is emotionally draining and often causes parents to prioritise meeting their children's needs and sacrifice their own.

Forty - nine per cent of people in private rented housing and 66 % in social housing confirmed they were in that category.

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

This is despite the fact that private rented housing is more expensive, less secure, and in worse condition than social housing.

On the other hand, the Labour Party has to acknowledge that it introduced a bedroom tax for private rented houses when it was last in government.

Not exact matches

I stayed with two of my friends and instead of renting out an entire apartment or house, we had a private room that actually turned out being super small.

That's enough to rent a nice apartment (or pay the mortgage on, say, a + / - $ 1m house), take a nice vacation each year, and probably pay private school tuition for one or two kids... but you're certainly not going to be flying your own Gulfstream with only $ 5 million.

In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.

«There are now 11 million private renters in England, and as housing costs keep rising, more and more people are struggling to scrape together the deposit needed to rent a home,» said Campbell Robb, Shelter chief executive.

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?

When he doubled and tripled the rents, a CBDO stepped in, assembled a complex financing package from public and private sources, purchased the buildings, employed a private contractor to rehabilitate them, and established a housing cooperative in which the residents are now shareholders.

I actually think we could learn from Germany, they have a lot more social housing and private rent isn't such an issue because the social housing keeps the prices down.

At the same time, we need greater investment in social housing and decisive action to make the private rented sector more accessible and affordable, along with radical solutions to tackle the severe shortage of truly affordable homes.

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

Given that more and more people are becoming homeless as a result of losing their home in the private rented sector, it's vital that housing benefit actually covers the cost of renting.

David Cameron is probed on council house tenants, the Housing Bill, private renting costs and starter homes #PMQs https://t.co/KjKaUnwjEU

Selling off social housing without replenishing it inevitably enlarged the private rental market, and tenants now suffer spiralling rents and increased insecurity.

None of them will do anything to tackle the massive shortage of council houses, indeed some may well make it worse, and none will address the rising cost of private rent.

Since 2011 more of us pay rent to a private landlord than to a council or housing association combined.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Aaron Schock, R - Ill., has repeatedly spent taxpayer and campaign funds to rent aircraft that are not certified charter services, despite House rules and federal law that generally prohibit the use of private aircraft for official and campaign use.

Thornberry's constituency falls within the London Borough of Islington, one of the most deprived areas of the country with disproportionately high house prices and private sector rents.

At the housing launch, Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg will also promise new «garden towns», more flats above shops and an expanded private rented sector.

«Quality, safe public housing puts downward pressure on private rents.

His commitment that a future Labour Government would build council houses and regulate private sector rents struck a chord with millions affected by the housing crisis.

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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.

Housing is clearly now a priority for the party — as an NPF rep for members in London (where there is a huge shortage of affordable housing of all tenure and a large, poorly regulated private rented sector) this is very welcome Housing is clearly now a priority for the party — as an NPF rep for members in London (where there is a huge shortage of affordable housing of all tenure and a large, poorly regulated private rented sector) this is very welcome housing of all tenure and a large, poorly regulated private rented sector) this is very welcome indeed.

In the housing workshop I was really impressed by how much Jack Dromey's team are listening to party members and the wider community and are developing really promising policies on planning reform, building more homes and tackling the many challenges faced by tenants in the private rented sector.

Indeed, analysis by the National Housing Federation indicates the effects will be felt acutely in the social rented as well as the (generally more expensive) private rented sector.

What is missing is a complementary strategy to increase the supply of genuinely affordable social housing, so that families don't have to end up in the more expensive (and less secure) private rented sector.

He also announced that the party will be tabling a «Mary Barbour law» at Holyrood to reform the private rented sector and help solve Scotland's «housing crisis».

With regards to rent and sale of property owned by private developers, the President bemoaned prices are too high for the average Ghanaian, encouraging private sector investment in cheaper housing for people from varying economic divides.

Astorino credited the extraordinary cooperation between the county Veterans Service Agency, local governments, non-profit housing and service providers, and private sector partners including local landlords who agree to give veterans priority in the renting of available units.

The combined worry of cuts to housing benefit and the slashing of the affordable house building subsidy, coupled with the absence of a long term strategy, will be devastating for the housing aspirations of thousands of young people consigned to increasing costs and bringing up their future families in an insecure private rented sector.»

Last night Mr Bryant said he stood by his remarks on the Coalition's plans to cap housing benefit at around # 400 a week for a house rented in the private sector.

Governments to provide additional funding to disabled people's organisations and advice agencies, to increase the supply of independent advice and information regarding housing options, including adaptations, with a particular focus on the private - rented sector.

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

Tony Blair's explicit support for the private rented sector in the mid-1990s marked an important milestone as it «constructed a symbolic distance from «old» Labour's preoccupation with council housing and distaste for private landlords».

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey has today pledged that under a Labour government there would be a «consumer rights revolution» for renters, starting by introducing tougher legal minimum standards for all private rented homes.

The private rented sector was no longer a housing problem but a mechanism to increase choice for consumers.

He increased the number of compulsory purchase orders for private - rented properties, converting them to council housing.

The report makes three recommendations for reforming British housing policy: incentivising homeownership, regulating rents on private properties, and increased investment in affordable housing grants.

As such, the arrangements grew to be highly complex, and were consolidated for council tenants in 1972 under the National Rent Rebate Scheme, and for private and housing association tenants in 1973 under the parallel Rent Allowance Scheme.

In January 2006 the Government published a welfare reform Green Paper entitled «A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering People to Work» which included further proposals for reforming Housing Benefit, in particular rolling out an adjusted version of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to the deregulated private rented sector.

During 2016, report after report lamented the state of housing in the UK and especially in London, not only its physical state but its cost, which rose both due to rising economic inequalities (with a minority of private landlords becoming very rich) and also then caused those inequalities to rise even further and faster because of rising rents depleting disposable income.

Chief executive Adam Sampson said: «The government must not lose sight of the fact that immediate triggers for homelessness - such as a row - can often be worsened by deeper problems such as overcrowding, sky high private rents or punitive restrictions on housing benefit for young people.

4.10 pm Communities and Local Government Subject: Private rented sector Witness (es): Cllr Simon Blackburn, Leader, Blackpool Borough Council, Tom Gilchrist, Service Manager, Private Housing Sector, Bristol City Council and Cllr Jonathan Glanz, Cabinet Member for Housing and Property, Westminster City Council Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

With insufficient social housing to provide a safety net for the majority of people, those who are «just about managing» are being pushed towards the private rented sector (PRS).

Private landlords who have blanket bans on renting to people with criminal records are in violation of the Fair Housing Act and can be sued and face penalties for discrimination, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said.