Sentences with phrase «social housing tenants who»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Social - housing tenants were the people who could most easily be made to carry the responsibility for energy efficiency because they had little control over their estates.

In Weaver v London and Quadrant HA Ltd [2009] 4 All ER 865, [2009] HLR 40, at [80], Elias LJ felt that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in that case — that acts of management were functions of a public nature — extended to all tenants of the trust who are in social housing where the properties were acquired as a result of state grants.

According to Shelter, which acted for the tenant, «This judgment is likely to help disabled tenants in private or social housing, who are threatened with eviction where they have limited security, have no other defences, and the reason they are being evicted is linked to their disability.»