Formerly Homeless Youth
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Comment on: DWP to consult on social homes under-occupation
As a fully grown man under the age of 35 I am pretty sure I require a bedroom.
Even children require bedrooms.
Perhaps the housing associations can knock rooms through to create one big bedsit rather than a 1 bedroom flat. -
Comment on: Do not pass go
I can't get an allotment, housing benefit pays the rent. There is no common land for me to grow food upon. I have little incentive to work for wages as all they do is cover the loss of housing benefit.
Dole for life or viva la (land tax) revolution it appears. What gets me is some tory can own 20000 acre and get paid £2million when a man on the dole is denied the ability to pay to RENT just a rod of land to grow some potatoes and carrots.
Once upon time we dug for victory, now we sit in our decent homes bathrooms, dig into our arms with a bit of brown to take the pain away, one of each for £15 and shoplift some meat for your elderly neighbours so they can carry on the Sunday tradition of our ancestors. It's not that we can't do productive things, add value to society, it's not even the fact that our houses are of detriment to our health. It is the sheer cost of the roof over your head, and the inability of one to pay for it himself when he works full time.
Work full time and still have to claim dole. Yep that's me, a genuine prole. -
Comment on: Council approves rent rise of almost 10 per cent
Housing benefit it is!
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Comment on: Direct payment pilot landlords revealed
I'd rather they did away with housing benefit and you got one big fat dole payment that you could spend as you choose, rather than be forced to spend ever increasing proportions on housing.
The market prop that is housing benefit is of such a magnitude than one cannot compete without it. Next man spend his HB on rent, so you have to pay that rent. If you weren't forced to spend so much on rent, nobody would do it freely.
Rent is goddamn high it makes no sense to work anymore. We have neither capitalism nor socialism, it's just one big system to keep landowners rich, at the expense of everyone else.
If housing benefit wasn't as high I'd be more likely to work. And the productive gains from my work could be hared amongst society. -
Comment on: Direct payment pilot landlords revealed
I get mine paid direct to the landlord, otherwise I'd spend it on food and not pay the rent.
The rent is so high that no rational man would be prepared to pay/can find a job that pays enough for him to live on modestly (3 meals a day, 2 warm baths a week type thing).
If I got it and spent it on food, then I'd be looking to then steal food to sell to pay the rent. Far better to steal food to eat, as you don't have to steal so much.
Stale bread is cheap, you can buy that and boil it in some water, so sometimes you don't have to steal to get by. Ideally you could steal food from the bins round the back of the supermarkets that gets sent to landfill, but you need an angle grinder to cut through the 10m high fences.
Discussions (1)
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Should affordable housing be affordable?
And what is affordable when it is at home?
I got a letter through today, rents shall rise above inflation. I'm going to take a £5 hit (I'm on minimum wage). Currently w
Posts (13)
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Posted in: Building stronger communities
You could lower the rent so we aren't forced onto housing benefit. You could include allotments in developments. You could let us use communal gardens for communal planting. Perhaps start off 'social industry' by including low rent shop units or workshops in developments for the young (and old) unemployed without income or assets to start working for themselves.
We young people lack land. And it ain't lie we can emigrate to america and homestead. And we need land to live upon and work upon.People say social housing is cheap, but you can work full time and still you require houing benefit cos the rent is so god damn high. Chuck in travel costs and there is little point in a man taking up productive work.
For he does not better himself, he merely transfers the rent obligation from housing benefit unto himself.
If a man works full time on min wage, he should be able to raise a family. I'm talking 3 bed semi, housewife and 2.4 children. Currently he would struggle to run a HA flat. And we can't all get jobs in the housing sector with generous pay allowed due to the setting of high rents for its tenants.
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Posted in: Single Room Rate HB < 35 yo
Without a mortgage or secure tenancy I can strike. I can withold labour, I can withold rent.
The amount of people in my position is increasingly rapidly.
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Posted in: Rent increase for 2011/12
My landlord would be screwed if they cut housing benefit, currently they are loaded, the state pays in full and on time, without fail.
He doesn't have to work for a living, and for him to make a living, neither do I.
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Posted in: WELFARE HOUSING/TENURE QUESTIONS
Define affordable...
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Posted in: Getting tenants to pay arrears when on HB
Perhaps the rent is too high?
It is often so high as to discourage people from working.