Ukraine house guests

Scotbot

sourpuss2021 said:

I would like to do it, but in a few months once the scheme has settled down.  (And perhaps by then the war will have ended).  I have had lodgers for many years.   I would just need to be confident they had the resourcefulness to move somewhere else after a fixed six month period.  So it would have to be one individual who could earn a living or had some savings.

If  you look at the govt website it is not a fixed 6 month period it is a minimum of 6 months.  Unsurprising  as no one can say how long this wtll be needed. If you are going to do this you need to be a people person who can cope with unpredictability. 

The initial applications also require the homeowner to nominate a refugee so people with family or friends here.

 Information is limited but it was set up in days. Makes sense to start off with people with contacts. I expect more info will become available over tine

sevenhills

Scotbot said:

 Information is limited but it was set up in days. Makes sense to start off with people with contacts. I expect more info will become available over tine

The "special military operation" was started on 24th March, so they have had a few weeks to bring any plans forward. Surely they have contingency plans already drawn up.

Scotbot

sevenhills said:

Scotbot said:

 Information is limited but it was set up in days. Makes sense to start off with people with contacts. I expect more info will become available over tine

The "special military operation" was started on 24th March, so they have had a few weeks to bring any plans forward. Surely they have contingency plans already drawn up.

What the civil service? Responsive? You are having a larf.... I am surprised they have managed to do anything without setting up numerous taskforces and zillions of meetings

F37A

They should have a register of the wealthiest people in the country and get them to house people as a starting point. So start with Oligarch buildings then others. 

sourpuss2021

Scotbot said:

sourpuss2021 said:

I would like to do it, but in a few months once the scheme has settled down.  (And perhaps by then the war will have ended).  I have had lodgers for many years.   I would just need to be confident they had the resourcefulness to move somewhere else after a fixed six month period.  So it would have to be one individual who could earn a living or had some savings.

If  you look at the govt website it is not a fixed 6 month period it is a minimum of 6 months.  Unsurprising  as no one can say how long this wtll be needed. If you are going to do this you need to be a people person who can cope with unpredictability. 

The initial applications also require the homeowner to nominate a refugee so people with family or friends here.

 Information is limited but it was set up in days. Makes sense to start off with people with contacts. I expect more info will become available over tine

Well, you are free to come to whatever agreement you want to with the person, so long as you make it clear and are understood.  As I said for me it would have to be for fixed period of six months, and I would host one individual.   (If I do it at all).

But I'm in London in zone 2 in an area with an enormous amount of resources for refugees (and also quite a few Ukrainians) and it's a small single room, so I would not be surprised even if they had moved out to somewhere better before then.   I've had international lodgers for a decade now (and, in the early 2010s, backpackers/couchsurfers), though I haven't hosted an actual refugee as it seemed too heavy for me to deal with.

A nice family with a big house and kids in the middle of nowhere, who are hosting a mother, grandma, and two kids who don't speak English, will obviously need to be offer something more stable.  If anyone actually takes them up on their offers which seems unlikely at the moment as most Ukrainians want to stay close to their country and go back to their families as soon as they can...

aoleks

if you're wondering about a potential "tenancy" or the £350/month, this is not for you, easy as pie.

I'm sorry, but Ukrainian refugees are not pets, you don't take them in because they're convenient. with or without government support, many would have offered their spare bedroom anyway, payment or no payment. if you're too concerned about the concept of having strangers in your house, please drop the idea.

this is why I don't think the £350 payment was wise of the government, it attracts too many... "entrepreneurs".

Slithery

sourpuss2021 said:
As I said for me it would have to be for fixed period of six months

Even if they ended up being a violent criminal? Wouldn't you want the option of getting rid of them earlier? 

sourpuss2021

Slithery said:

sourpuss2021 said:
As I said for me it would have to be for fixed period of six months

Even if they ended up being a violent criminal? Wouldn't you want the option of getting rid of them earlier? 

In that event they wouldn't have to do a full six month stretch, I'd give them time off for bad behaviour!     Hopefully they could be evicted just as a lodger would be. 

I wouldn't host a man under this scheme anyway because they weren't allowed to leave Ukraine after the second day of the war (unless they bribed a border guard etc).

I'm talking out loud here to be honest because I'm not sure if I'm going to do it, and certainly would not offer in the first few weeks.  It looks like there's progress on peace talks so the situation will be different when at least the war itself has ended.

Slithery

sourpuss2021 said:
In that event they wouldn't have to do a full six month stretch, I'd give them time off for bad behaviour!     Hopefully they could be evicted just as a lodger would be.

So not a 'fixed period of six months' as you said then?

sourpuss2021

Slithery said:

sourpuss2021 said:
In that event they wouldn't have to do a full six month stretch, I'd give them time off for bad behaviour!     Hopefully they could be evicted just as a lodger would be.

So not a 'fixed period of six months' as you said then?

Well, surely the scheme will allow either party to end the arrangement at any point in the event of a serious issue or change of situation for either party.  Including the best case that returning to Ukraine becomes safe again.