Council House sub-letting to be criminalized

Road_Hog

This is a bad idea and I'll tell you why. The law always goes after the easy pickings. Phone the please to say there is someone suspicious in the neighbourhood he's pulling at car door handles etc. and they won't come out to investigate. Give them a speed gun and they've got plenty of time to catch people doing 33 MPH on a quiet day.

This women in the attached article is a Labour peer Baroness Uddin. Being in the House of Lords she'll be on a pretty penny. She lives in social housing in Tower Hamlets. She also has a private house in Kent. The reason she has a private house in Kent (that she has never lived in) is so that she can pretend she lives there (her main residence) and then claim expenses on her London property.

So, she's well off.

Keeps hold of her social housing house.

Lies that she lives in her Kent property to claim on other house.

Claimed over £100,000 in expenses for the social housing house.

Holds many (paid) directorships with large companies.

She owns a palace/mansion in Bangladesh.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23685322-well-off-labour-peer-is-a-social-housing-tenant.do

She still has her social housing and other properties. She was not criminally prosecuted. She was asked to pay the money back but has not paid a penny back yet and is about to retake her seat in the House of Lords.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061006/Shamed-peer-Baroness-Uddin-allowed-House-Lords.html

The worst offenders always get away with it, they know how to play the game. Some poor person, who perhaps through financial hardship rents a room out for a few weeks at the time of the Olympic games or similar, is the sort of person that they will comes down on like a ton of bricks.

purch

Concil House sub-letting to be criminalized

In English the word is spelt criminalised :eek:



P.S. You can spell Social Housing in anyway you choose

ILW

Give it to private companies to enforce, paid purely on results. Anyone found to be subletting is issued an immediate fine of 1 years rent and loses tenancy. The private company gets half the fine. Everybody except the crooks benefits. I cannot see a downside.

Greenst

£100 k !!! I am shocked that council houses are not means tested. I am just an ordinary "Jo" but I know of someone subletting their flat while living away with their 'boyfriend' who is extremely well off and owns several properties here and abroad, someone else who got a council house on a false name, and who's combined income is around £60k she has a horse drives a 4wd he has a sports car just got a £40k inheritance, they have x box, Wii, new tv, he plays golf at a private club etc etc etc, good on them for a lovely life but they hardly come onto the bracket of being needy of council accomodation, instead of the government spending money on building more social housing maybe they should crack down on those taking the p#*s out of the system and those that can well afford private rent or god forbid a mortgage.

kabayiri

Allow neighbours to profit from snitching on subletting, paid for by fining those who indulge in the practise.

This is easy to promote, and a valuable income source to honest council tax tennants.

daveyjp

Headline grabbing nonsense aimed at a few lefties who happen to fit the criteria, or are there really thousands of £100k+ a year earners in social housing?

Anything means tested is always difficult and expensive to monitor and enforce.

BobQ

PaulF81 wrote: »

It is WH, but look on the bright side. All those filthy union troughers are now going to have to pay. There should be a subclause for MPs though.

What does this mean in English?

geri1965_2

michaels wrote: »

Personally I think all council properties should charge market rates or may be 10% below - for those who can't afford this there is housing benefit and why should those who can afford it but were lucky enough to get a council house receive a subsidy that millions of others in the same financial position but who have never got a council house do not get?

Council housing is NOT subsidised. Private landlords just charge more.

bryanb

Road_Hog wrote: »

Labour peer Baroness Uddin. Being in the House of Lords she'll be on a pretty penny.

Actually, no, members of the House of Lords are not paid a salary.
However they can claim expenses.

BobQ

purch wrote: »

In English the word is spelt criminalised :eek:



P.S. You can spell Social Housing in anyway you choose

An early nomination for pedant of the year?