MOONLIGHT ROBBERY FOR HOUSING ASSOCIATION TENANT'S

22/03/2009 12:23 pm

Come on Folks someone out they must know a way of starting a campaign for us Housing Association Tenant's why should Council Tenant's get such a decrease and we get nothing

23/03/2009 9:23 am

Harry I think you ARE missing the point the point is that Council Housing Tenant's got a discount and Housing Association Tenant's got NO DISCOUNT and I aware that Government decision and I raise this with Peter Marsh of Tenant Service Authority so I well aware but we are all Social Tenant's whether Council or Housing Association to me you cannot give one a discount and they other nothing we all aware that Housing Association tenant's PAY OVER THE TOP HAS IT IS FOR RENTS AND SERVICE CHARGES WHEN SOME HOUSING ASSOCIATION VERY GOOD BUT SOME ARE AWFUL

23/03/2009 10:58 am

the main, if not the only, reason council tenants demands of some truce on rent increases has been met is because they were more organized and they protested strongly about it... Social tenants are not organized to mount a similar protest and so they are not going to get any... Private tenants are not organized and they are not going to get any help either... It was a great and well earned victory for council tenants. May they go on and on to even greater victories. All tenants, whether social or private, should take example from them and organize themselves and demand a better deal and greater respects for tenants of any kind and everywhere.

23/03/2009 5:05 pm

Again Harry I believe your missing the point whether you are in Council Housing or Housing Association Housing they are both a Social Landlord in the pass it was because you was on a low income that you was accepted on the Housing List my point the Government set these prices increases but only gave one section a discount in Social Housing. I'm not talking about other increases we all have to face that not the point the point is that the Government given one section of Social Housing A DISCOUNT and not the OTHER and please do not talking above the Decant Home Act because again what fool in Government decised on 20 and 30 yrs we do not have Oak Fitted Kitchen we lucky if we have MFI Kitchen's please come to Tower Hamlets and see how our Housing Association left Tenant's in Disrepair for over two years because Tower Hamlets let them take over Sheltering Homes and guess what we the Tenant's wasn't able to vote and we wasn't told that all Major Works and Refurnishment would be put on hold until all these Sheltering Homes bought up to standard under the Decant Homes Act. I had to call in the Environmental Health Officer to get satisfactory and I still awaiting for the Order of Work to be completed after NINE INSPECTIONS and NINE MONTHS LATER please do not get me on that subject we be here all day understand some of these Housing Association are beyond belief how they treat they Tenant's

24/03/2009 9:10 am

Well that not what Peter Marsh of the Tenant Authority Service told me and the rest of the Tenant's at the TSA Conference in London

24/03/2009 11:37 am

Not it isn't its greed Housing Association not think about its Tenants has the Eastend Life wrote "The moves follows a letter from Tower Hamlets councillors and neighbouring boughts to housing minister Maragret Beckett urging her to "support or residents in these difficlt times" and calling for a reassessment of the inflation figre sed to set the government's rent guidencelines" Its about times Housing Association remember the Tenant's and how these increases affect its Tenant's well lets see how many go into Arrears becase of such a large increase and then we see the truth costs of the amont of cases going to court over Rent Arrears you cannot get blood of a stone because to me most of you no living in the real world and not thinking how such a large increase is affecting these TENANT'S IN HOUSING ASSOCIATION PROPERTY THESE ARE NORMALLY PEOPLE ON LIMITED INCOMES

24/03/2009 1:12 pm

I love it when people say RSLs are greedy....Why would they be greedy? They don't have any shareholders who get the money. It all goes into providing housing and can't go anywhere else. As I already said, the letter that went to Margaret Beckett asked for Councils not to be forced to charge the higher rent. RSLs also don't have to charge the higher rent, but don't have the taxpayer to bail them out if they go bust so, in most cases, need to charge the rent to cover their costs.

24/03/2009 5:47 pm

Eva, you seem to have defeated your own argument.

24/03/2009 6:27 pm

I mean you have just set out chapter and verse on why RSL rents are not the same as Council rents, that they will eventually converge and that RSLs need to charge a rent that covers their costs or subsidise them from their reserves (which are pretty much zero now) or face going bust.

24/03/2009 6:49 pm

Because the old rent regimes for Councils and RSLs were different and people that moved into RSL homes thought they were being 'ripped off' whereas, in fact, the Council rent they were paying was effectively too low and unsustainable.