Housing benefit debate now BBC Radio London

brit1234

Changes come in today, heated debate on rent cuts.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_london

brit1234

Landlord moaning that poor people will suffer. However she didn't mention dropping her rent a little to stop poor people suffering.:mad:

chucky

brit1234 wrote: »

Landlord moaning that poor people will suffer. However she didn't mention dropping her rent a little to stop poor people suffering.:mad:

when you go to tesco do you ask them to drop their prices of corn flakes because of 'poor people'?

a landlord drops his rent if the market demands it - those that don't drop it lose money in the marketplace as tenants will go elsewhere to rent.

JonnyBravo

Where are the pictures of greedy landlords and poor starving tenants?
C'mon brit - less chatter, more pictures.

angrypirate

Surely it goes something like this
Landlords - boo
Housing benefits tenants - boo
Everyone else - yeah

PasturesNew

The trouble with any benefits is, once given, it's almost impossible to remove.

I feel if they'd not been so generous in the first place, rents would have all been cheaper - and houses wouldn't have been snapped up as cash cows because the maths/cash wouldn't have stacked up so easily.

Landlords used to have either a house they inherited/bought for cash, or they had to apply for a proper commercial loan and make a business case and put down a big deposit; houses with tenants in were worth half of an untenanted house - and tenants had rights (often for life).... so it used to be a completely different ballgame.

ninky_2

what percentage of private rentals are funded by housing benefit?

ninky_2

i really have very little sympathy for the woman in this clip. why does she think she has a right to over 400 quid a week so that she can live in a three bed house in islington??!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12938936

plenty of people have to move away from areas to cheaper ones because of their personal financial situation.

this housing benefit cut is a good condem policies imho. and i'm not a fan as a rule

chewmylegoff

ninky wrote: »

what percentage of private rentals are funded by housing benefit?

this was all done on another thread somewhere ages ago, the answer is a lot (i think it was 1/3 in london receive at least some HB), but that only london is really affected by the HB caps, and the estimate is that something like 20,000 households in london will be in shortfall as a result of the caps (when they are applied to existing claimants - just new claimants at the moment). about 5,000 of these households are in westminster and the rest smattered around. i think the figures suggested that only about 1/2 of london boroughs will be within the reach of HB claimants after the caps come in.

chewmylegoff

ninky wrote: »

i really have very little sympathy for the woman in this clip. why does she think she has a right to over 400 quid a week so that she can live in a three bed house in islington??!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12938936

plenty of people have to move away from areas to cheaper ones because of their personal financial situation.

this housing benefit cut is a good condem policies imho. and i'm not a fan as a rule

might do her good to have a bit less money, she won't be able to buy as much food.

PasturesNew

PROPERTY_LANDLORD_CLASS wrote: »

My rentals are priced in very competitively for the market so won't be dropping them one single pence. Thanks for the concern though.

Well, as the market's just moved, in order to keep your position you'll have to drop them.