Changes to Housing benefit how much will rents fall?

ukcarper

silvercar wrote: »

Prices in these little countryside towns that the whole of the great London unwashed are moving to will rocket.

They won't be able to afford to move to most of them

Silverbull

ukcarper wrote: »

They won't be able to afford to move to most of them

Thats why there is that fund for moving people out of London.

The government are prepared for it, they are setting aside money to move benefit claimants out of the city and into less populated areas.

OK the Housing benefit bill will be reduced a long way but unemployment is going to record figures.

drc

ukcarper wrote: »

But would you commute for minimum wage

Yes, I have done in the past.

chucky

Silverbull wrote: »

Thats why there is that fund for moving people out of London.

The government are prepared for it, they are setting aside money to move benefit claimants out of the city and into less populated areas.

OK the Housing benefit bill will be reduced a long way but unemployment is going to record figures.

no - the fund that is being set up is to keep people in London in the same properties not move them out as you keep on telling us

ukcarper

Silverbull wrote: »

Thats why there is that fund for moving people out of London.

The government are prepared for it, they are setting aside money to move benefit claimants out of the city and into less populated areas.

OK the Housing benefit bill will be reduced a long way but unemployment is going to record figures.

I know this post is about house prices and that is your main concern but you can’t run a city with no one doing the low paid jobs so moving lets say a hospital porter claiming LHA 50 miles from London won’t keep the city running.

chewmylegoff

ukcarper wrote: »

I know this post is about house prices and that is your main concern but you can’t run a city with no one doing the low paid jobs so moving lets say a hospital porter claiming LHA 50 miles from London won’t keep the city running.

plenty of council housing in inner london, and plenty of unemployed people living there.

drc

ukcarper wrote: »

I know this post is about house prices and that is your main concern but you can’t run a city with no one doing the low paid jobs so moving lets say a hospital porter claiming LHA 50 miles from London won’t keep the city running.

Then they will just have to raise salaries rather than maintaining high yields for rich landlords.

Silverbull

drc wrote: »

Then they will just have to raise salaries rather than maintaining high yields for rich landlords.

Cant see that happening somethings got to give.

I think its rents and then HPs will have to come down.

ukcarper

chewmylegoff wrote: »

plenty of council housing in inner london, and plenty of unemployed people living there.

You are probably right but I can’t see the government chucking them out and putting low paid workers in their price, good idea that it might be.

olly300

ukcarper wrote: »

You are probably right but I can’t see the government chucking them out and putting low paid workers in their price, good idea that it might be.

Would you like to live in a high rise further away from your work?

It's not a simple as just moving low paid workers into their place. It's to do with the location of council/HA properties and the size of them.