Housing benefit rise inline with rent rise?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Fiver29 wrote: »

I'm afraid you don't know it, as you're completely wrong. But you carry on believing what you want to believe, don't let facts get in the way of a good troll.

I'll tell you what I do know, and that's housing. As a tenant having to move due to council regeneration, you would have been top of the council housing priority. Are you telling me that you are such a fool that you turned down the opportunity of a secure tenancy with controlled rents and security for you and your family to rent privately? If you did, you're a bigger mug than I first thought.

As for private? You'd have got a 2 bed easy. As you said yourself, there were plenty about. Unless you think private lanlords like their houses to be empty???

Fiver29

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

I'll tell you what I do know, and that's housing. As a tenant having to move due to council regeneration, you would have been top of the council housing priority. Are you telling me that you are such a fool that you turned down the opportunity of a secure tenancy with controlled rents and security for you and your family to rent privately? If you did, you're a bigger mug than I first thought.

As for private? You'd have got a 2 bed easy. As you said yourself, there were plenty about. Unless you think private lanlords like their houses to be empty???

Yawn, last post on the subject because you obviously have trouble taking in information. The landlords might not want empty properties but the letting agents follow the same rules as the council. And since you need a passport from the council in order to rent from the letting agents, you can't pretend not to have children you have.

As for social housing, all the controlled rents in the world wouldn't make me live on the only council estate around here that has vacancies. And it has vacancies for a reason, you'd have to be a total mug or chav to live on it.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Fiver29 wrote: »

Yawn, last post on the subject because you obviously have trouble taking in information. The landlords might not want empty properties but the letting agents follow the same rules as the council. And since you need a passport from the council in order to rent from the letting agents, you can't pretend not to have children you have.

As for social housing, all the controlled rents in the world wouldn't make me live on the only council estate around here that has vacancies. And it has vacancies for a reason, you'd have to be a total mug or chav to live on it.

So, every prospective tenant who wants to rent privately HAS to go through the council? Rubbish!!!!!

daska

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

As for private? You'd have got a 2 bed easy. As you said yourself, there were plenty about. Unless you think private lanlords like their houses to be empty???

I have no idea whether you're technically correct or not but I remember being told very emphatically by one agent that I had to rent a house with 2 or more bedrooms as it was for myself and one child (age 6). This would have been about 7 years ago and I've never had occasion to ask the question since. But it did happen...

Wee_Willy_Harris

daska wrote: »

I have no idea whether you're technically correct or not but I remember being told very emphatically by one agent that I had to rent a house with 2 or more bedrooms as it was for myself and one child (age 6). This would have been about 7 years ago and I've never had occasion to ask the question since. But it did happen...

2 bedrooms for a parent and child seems perfectly sensible. As does 2 bedrooms for parent and 2 children.

welshmoneylover

relhuk wrote: »

I dont need to justify myself ....
I CHOSE to have 4 children, I might CHOOSE to rent a bigger house.

You can have as many children as you like, but why do you expect the taxpayer to pay your housing costs for your 4 children? Cant you pay for it yourself?

Wee_Willy_Harris

welshmoneylover wrote: »

You can have as many children as you like, but why do you expect the taxpayer to pay your housing costs for your 4 children? Cant you pay for it yourself?

Do you have an alternative to put forward? What salary per child are you thinking of? Perhaps you think we should save a little before having children, almost like a deposit for a house? A means tested child license? Or we could just starve poor children out of existance?

daska

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

2 bedrooms for a parent and child seems perfectly sensible. As does 2 bedrooms for parent and 2 children.

I agree, but his reasoning was exactly the same as you're claiming Fiver29 is mistaken about. He told me that legally I couldn't rent a one bedroom house for myself and my six year old. And yes, it was a private rent.

Wee_Willy_Harris

daska wrote: »

I agree, but his reasoning was exactly the same as you're claiming Fiver29 is mistaken about. He told me that legally I couldn't rent a one bedroom house for myself and my six year old. And yes, it was a private rent.

It's NOT exactly the same. YOU are refering to two generations sharing a room, parent and child. Fiver was talking about two siblings sharing a room, not uncommon by any stretch of the imagination.

But either way, there are no LEGAL restrictions.

Oldernotwiser

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Perhaps you think we should save a little before having children, almost like a deposit for a house?

Saving before having children - what an original idea! I wonder that nobody's thought of it before!