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It's been pretty obvious from my contact with various councils and social landlords that when positions have become vacant they are not being replaced, as one measure of saving money, and that job cuts are affecting a lot of lower paid staff proportionally more than managers.

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  • From Tom Lloyd, 03/02/2012 2:50 pm in posting comments

    We are aware of this problem and are trying to find a way to make the system more usable without leaving it vulnerable to some of the security issues the html block is designed to address. In the meantime if you paste your comment into a simple text editor - such as notepad on PCs - and then into the forum it should work. It is best to avoid email addresses and hyperlinks as well, although if you paste a URL into the post it should work (although it will not be a link).

  • From mrkfm, 03/02/2012 2:46 pm in Ending an 'Affordable' Tenancy

    it means the same as giving advice and assistance for people that aren't priority need under the homeless act.  give them a piece of paper with some contact numbers for landlords and nightshelters and let them sort themselves out.

  • From Spellbinder , 01/02/2012 4:19 pm in under occupy

    If you mean are you breaching your tenancy by underoccupying, then the answer is no. 

  • From Marie Bull, 01/02/2012 12:02 pm in Tenant cashback

    Hi Jess

  • From David Blythen, 30/01/2012 8:33 pm in Should separate Communal areas have separate electricity meters?

    @Will Nixon,

  • From Eddie Blaze, 30/01/2012 10:24 am in Advice about change of use

    Thanks for your response. 

  • posted Anonymously, 30/01/2012 8:35 am in Problem tenants

    Hi Wendy

  • posted Anonymously, 28/01/2012 8:00 pm in Being forced into private rented accomodation

    Sounds like you have gotten some very poor advice from the LA. When you went to court ( I take it you were on a Assured Shorthold tenancy or a licence?) did you mention that the LA had told you to stay put until the landlord evicted you? Unfortunately you are in the world of temp accommodation, where the local housing allowance is king. It might be the council is paying the max permitted for that property £900 and the new couple are covering the shortfall? As for the Housing Officer leaving....housing has massive turn over of staff, the ...

  • From Neil Meager, 27/01/2012 1:00 pm in Shapps Speaks - but then what?

    All i see around me is evidence of a society divided up by race age & gender & sexual orientation in fact a more cynical part of me wud say theres a Nazi program being put in place. I see buy to let landlords running nice homes better than government housing but excluding the poor from major cities using the LHA system. RSLs budgets being slashed making their task of providing decent homes impossible & yet tenant empowerment programs being setup which is easy to see will plug the gap & replace RSLs which shud face bankruptucy soon. Homeownership ...

  • From Neil Meager, 27/01/2012 12:35 pm in HOUSING ASSOCIATION TENANT FAILURE

    yes i have moved into a flat that on closer inspection has been bogded & fitted with low grade fittings that when fallls apart is considered broken by the tenant so repair company wont repair. The flat fails the decent homes act & the is a carbon positive home & has made me ill & financially crippled me in trying to heat the place & the association is failing to help me get out of fuel poverty.