Alex Brown
Yorkshire
Full time community activist, HA board member
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Comment on: Shapps issues B&B warning to councils
Gavin try reading the stuff on RTB add in the ridiculous problems encountered building social housing to find the evidence. Add to this the upcoming problems with bedroom tax forcing people to downsize to properties that do not exist and see that he is being ably abetted by IDS
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Comment on: Brit taxpayers should jump housing queue says MP
Mr Field misses a vital point in his report, it is now quite possible to be born in Britain and not be a British Citizen, once apon a time if you were born here you got British Citizenship, this right was taken away a few years ago now if your parents were born overseas you have to take their nationality and at somepoint take the citizenship exam (I tookit a couple of weeks ago out of curiosity and failed it as did several of my colleagues).
So talk of "foreign nationals taking social housing" doesn't necessarily hold water. -
Comment on: Warning over housing benefit plan for under-25s
As usual an idea that has not been thought through, children move away and get a job, parents get bedroom taxed and forced to downsize, child loses job and is told to move back with parents but they can't house him now. Where does he/she go?
Option 2 does move back in and parents hit by punitive non-deoendants charge and ask him to leave.
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Comment on: Cameron launches reinvigorated right to buy
From the governments own cosultation document it is not possible to raise 30% of cost of new build by councils, sell 10 get nothing, sell 16 make £92,000. There is an acute shortage of social homes now, selling of more will be an unmitigated disaster.
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Comment on: MPs and peers to examine private rented sector
Why ask this now when the "experts" have been telling them for months of the dire consequences of this vindictive piece of legislation.
Put this in the hands of real tenants from both sectors and let them ask the questions and make the recommendations needed. FAT CHANCE
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Posts (12)
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Posted in: My Housing Officer is very unhelpful
Having just got back to my desk after some time off this debate has been interesting to catch up with. The original poster has got a poor response from his neighbourhood officer, sadly we do have some who are too lazy to say I don't know but will find out who owns the land or put you in touch with someone who can help. As this has not happened despite more than one request I would take this up with his/her line manager, not jump straight to the Chief Exec level straight away. Some where in the office will be a definative map of what belongs to the association, if this tree is not on their land it is a simple matter to telephone the Council Area Committee or whatever the local council call their neighbourhood team. They will have access to the database of council land. All quite simple really though I must say that as a tenant I would not go to my neighbourhood officer in the first place but would ring asset management and do the job myself.
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Posted in: Life after TSA and Audit Commission? Where does this leave regulatory framework?
Where the right calibre tenants are in place repairs/maintenance will continue to improve I agree. However when these tenants run out of steam are we sure that all landlords will replace them with tenants of the same calibre. I have my doubts.
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Posted in: CHARITABLE STATUS
I believe that currently some of the larger associations already have commercial arms and that profits are gifted to the charitable body. Not sure how this works but I am sure that someone will explain. Are the HCA allowed to fund this sort of activity?
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Posted in: Secure to Assured Tenancy
Within a Housing Association as Rick says there is no right to buy but there is Right to Acquire, same principle just less discount. Though as Rick says if you were a LA tenant prior to transfer you will keep preserved RTB
As to contiued rights in general my understanding is that your old tenancy agreement should remain your governing document until such time as you sign a new one. Your new landlord as I understand it must get each tenant to sign the new document (if such exists) they cannot just issue an edict as the old LA system saying that everything has changed accept it or move out.
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Posted in: HA tenant inherits property in UK or abroad
With that amount in the bank I agree, the intention though was to eliminate from the waiting list those wanting to downsize but keep their large property to rent out and generate a nice income. Not what social khousing was designed for.