Council Mutual Exchange , Bedroom Tax & what is allowed??

t0rt0ise

FBaby wrote: »

You sound like a very nice person, but your expectations of what the State should do for you seem unreasonable to me.

Rubbish! The State perfectly happily allocated people housing with one extra bedroom until now. Nobody including you thought anything of it and would never have done if it weren't for the government suddenly bringing in these rules. And now you're all holier than thou and expecting everyone who was allocated a house with a spare room to feel guilty and desperately seek to move to somewhere smaller.

And what's more if you look at the statistics you will see that there are far fewer people living in overcrowded homes than there are those with a spare room. The government has duped you into believing it's the other way around.

letthemeatcake

Morlock wrote: »

What makes you think that the council didn't put the staircase in themselves?

Do the council put spiral staircases in? From a safety point of view I would expect the house to be made ready for a family to move into which would mean returning it to a basic staircase.

princessdon

From what I have read of OP's posts I like them as a person, they adore their grandchild and are very caring.

But this thread highlights how wrong it is in the UK. Her home is beautiful and yes I suspect she put a lot of time and money into that, but when I look at colleagues of my husband, renting studio flats as its all they can afford, paying thousands in tax paying for that and holidays to Caribbean it just seems wrong.

This isn't having a go at OP but shows how screwed up the system is to a young single tax payer without a hope of social rental, paying out in tax to live in a tiny accommodation.

Dunroamin

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Rubbish! The State perfectly happily allocated people housing with one extra bedroom until now. Nobody including you thought anything of it and would never have done if it weren't for the government suddenly bringing in these rules. And now you're all holier than thou and expecting everyone who was allocated a house with a spare room to feel guilty and desperately seek to move to somewhere smaller.

And what's more if you look at the statistics you will see that there are far fewer people living in overcrowded homes than there are those with a spare room. The government has duped you into believing it's the other way around.

Have you forgotten the number of people living in the private sector who would give anything to be living in cheap, secure accommodation whether underoccupied or overcrowded? Where does that leave them when people who don't even pay their own rent are living in accommodation with one or more bedrooms than they need and who do nothing except complain about having to pay a few quid out of their own money?

FBaby

Nobody including you thought anything of it and would never have done if it weren't for the government suddenly bringing in these rules

Really? Many people DID think about it and complained that it wasn't right and welcome the new rules.

Dunroamin

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Rubbish! The State perfectly happily allocated people housing with one extra bedroom until now. Nobody including you thought anything of it and would never have done if it weren't for the government suddenly bringing in these rules. And now you're all holier than thou and expecting everyone who was allocated a house with a spare room to feel guilty and desperately seek to move to somewhere smaller.

Until it came up on MSE I had no idea that people were allocated properties larger than they needed, although I appreciated that there was a problem when people's children had left home and the parents were left in the family home.

paddedjohn

letthemeatcake wrote: »

Do the council put spiral staircases in? From a safety point of view I would expect the house to be made ready for a family to move into which would mean returning it to a basic staircase.

Just being pedantic but its not a spiral staircase, its a circular or winding one.

skylight

Cazza - Have you spoken to the council yet??

letthemeatcake

paddedjohn wrote: »

Just being pedantic but its not a spiral staircase, its a circular or winding one.

Was it?
The pic has gone now so I can't check.

midnight_express

I think the OP realised that the fraud people know how to use the internet. Her Cancun holiday snaps have gone from her facebook page as well . Pity we never got a picture of her chav TV.