Sentences with phrase «social housing waiting»

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.

This doesn't include the 168,000 Ontario households on the social housing waiting list.

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.

No wonder house prices doubled, whilst social housing waiting lists rose by 500,000 families in ten years.

«With home ownership in decline, rents rising rapidly and social housing waiting lists at a record high, it's time to face up to the fact that we have a totally dysfunctional housing market,» NHF chief executive David Orr said.

The same year, the estimated number of people on the social housing waiting register in England reached 1.7 million.

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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?

It helps a little to tell yourself that, no, their lives are not as perfectly put - together as their social media presence would make them appear, and yes, even Perfect Internet Mom Friend is probably riddled with doubts about herself, but even those known truths bring little comfort when it's 11 a.m. on a Saturday morning, your house is a full - on mess, the kids are all staring at screens, and you're cruising Instagram, waiting to feel inadequate.

With homelessness rising, the need for affordable social housing is growing - but today in England more than 1.5 million households are waiting for a home.

Cameron's plans would see statutory guidance issued to local councils demanding people live in the local area for two to five years before they are allowed on the waiting list for social housing.

The government claims that these new proposals will increase house building and reduced council house waiting lists, by replacing each social unit sold.

«Government must build more social housing across the country to help those already on housing waiting lists and the many thousands more who will be in need as the recession bites.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

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.

There is no denying the importance of building new homes — to promote health, jobs and social mobility — especially when some five million people languish on national housing waiting lists.

sadly labour has sod all to talk about with the social house building it did, people in my area on the priority waiting list may have to wait five or six years.

And there is the London of the low - income toiler and the out of work: the life of the cramped, expensive rental on the margins of the city, or the endless wait for social housing.

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

He demonstrated as social services minister a willingness to negotiate, but his approach was clearly to save money, and the government continued to try to legislate to have a four - week waiting period before getting any welfare payments, which is a disaster for those children from families without access to big houses and trust funds.