Changes to Housing benefit how much will rents fall?

ukcarper

Are Reading and Watford awash with vacent properties?

Jowo_2

ukcarper wrote: »

Are Reading and Watford awash with vacent properties?

I would expect they have less demand on them and more churn than inner/ central London....!

A person who moves for their job is invariably motivated to secure accommodation in the area.

Now, I know that there was previously an absence of pressure for benefit claimants to be geographically mobile but that's changing now.

ukcarper

But enough to accommodate a large influx from London.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

carolt wrote: »

Don't forget, there will now be 170,000 properties empty, looking for rich tenants to fill them. .

You are so full of !!!!!!.

"Figures compiled from the DWP’s own data show that 159,370 households across London will face a reduction in the LHA they receive by October 2013. Of these, an estimated 9,990 families could be forced to move from central London to secure cheaper accommodation elsewhere in London or outside of London."
http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/London%20Councils/TheimpactofHBchangesonLondon.pdf

Decisiondenied

Why is it that Councils or Government bodies encourage people to go on HOusing Benefit , think this is a help, and now the Government is penalizing those that are on HOusing Benefit?

Shakethedisease

Looks like not all of the changes will make it through parliament without changes being made..

http://www.channel4.com/news/coalition-cracks-appear-over-housing-benefits

Simon Hughes

"My message to the government is I don't think you will get Parliamentary approval for your current plans," he said.

"I think government understands there has to be negotiations.
"The current proposals are not the best set of proposals, whatever the financial constraints. There are better ways of doing it and we need to achieve them.

"I am making sure the message from me and many colleagues is being communicated loud and clear to government."

A wee rebellion in the offing ?

ukcarper

But how many LibDem defectors would it take.

Shakethedisease

No idea, but he seems pretty emphatic about it. He is the deputy libdem leader.

"My message to the government is I don't think you will get Parliamentary approval for your current plans," he said.

So perhaps things won't be as straightforward with these reforms as we thought ?

MrPThomas

Will this benefit cap change I wonder?

This will affect rents/house prices more than all other painful cuts.

They do have to reduce housing benefit one way or another, if they put it off the problem will be worse and rents/house prices will crash more than they have to.

the_flying_pig

apologies if seen already [this thread is getting quite long]

http://www.voa.gov.uk/LHADirect/Documents/LHA_percentile_rates_Oct_2010.html