Showing posts with label UNISON.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNISON.. Show all posts

Saturday, February 02, 2013

How the bedroom tax works....

Search the Internet for "bedroom tax" and you will find mind bogglingly awful stories of families facing eviction and hardship because of it.

Steve Hilditch from Redbrick thinks that the Tory coalition may finally be politically vulnerable over this issue since it will impact all MPs constituencies.

Families whose children have died won't be able to pay the rent since their housing benefit will be restricted. They are deemed to be "under-occupying" (it's too big for them) their properties following the deaths of their children.

The mother whose son has joined the Army and is due to go to Afghanistan was told by Tory MP to "get a lodger".

I hope it does.

UNISON members who work in housing management will be placed in an impossible position. They will be expected to evict tenants on housing benefit whose children have left home even if they have been exemplary residents and have lived there all their lives. Established communities will be shattered.

This and the other "reforms" will also cost Councils and Housing Associations millions of pounds in arrears and extra administration. Money better spent on building new homes and kick starting the economy?

Click on picture to bring up details and decide for yourself who has too many bedrooms.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Be afraid! Tories plan huge rent increases and reduced rights.

Some 8 million (repeat 8 million) people could be affected if the Tories were given the power to bring Council and Housing association rents up to private market rates while also getting rid of tenants security of tenure. I do not want to evict Grannies from their homes if their children have grown up and moved out or if they cannot afford private sector rents on their pensions.

Yet more clear red water.