Paul Jones

• Comment on: DCH protests against welfare reforms

  Paul Jones's comment | 22/05/2012 11:25 am

  Well done DCH. People will look back and wish they'd done more to speak up when there is nowhere cheap to live any more.

• Comment on: Developer appointed for Covent Garden scheme

  Paul Jones's comment | 21/05/2012 9:51 pm

  What will happen to the flourishing Nine Elms Sunday market which serves the local population.

• Comment on: Housing benefit claims reach record level

  Paul Jones's comment | 19/05/2012 9:47 am

  The answer is building social rent homes, rent controls in the private sector and job creation. But the Tories want to line their own pockets. This is just supporting extortionate private rents.

• Comment on: Peabody names winner of design competition

  Paul Jones's comment | 19/05/2012 9:38 am

  Looks great. But will the sound proofing be adequate? Poor soundproofing causes such misery. (And will any of these flats be for social rent?)

• Comment on: Right to buy letter under fire for ‘irresponsibility’

  Paul Jones's comment | 18/05/2012 11:17 am

  I think Right to Buy is wrong and I live in rented social housing. When some flats are sold and others remain rented this can cause problerms between neighbours who are no longer equals, and people do often find they can't keep up their payments if they buy. They may lose their home and the flat is lost forever as social housing for the next person in need, in line.

• What happens if... re: an exchange

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  In Ask the Experts | 06/03/2012 8:40 am

  Hello. I would very much value expert advice on this.  My mother is doing a mutual exchange and it's reached the stage of signing the deeds of assignment at each HA.  The person she is e

• What is reasonable for "service charges"

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  In Ask the Experts | 15/09/2011 3:48 pm

  My service charges have gone up from £50 to £75 per month. This is for maintenance of a shared hallway in a block of ten social rented flats.  10 x £75 = £700. 

• Expertise please - rent regime after 2015?

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  In Ask the Experts | 23/02/2011 5:26 pm

  Hello, I may be moving from a "regulated" (pre 1989) rent HA place to another HA flat with a higher rent and an assured tenancy without the older "fair rent" status.
  I would appreciate exp

• Mutual excahnge and new tenancies

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  In Ask the Experts | 06/02/2012 5:53 pm

  Hello. I have not posted here before and am looking for expert opinion.  Please don't just post what you fear may happen. I'm really looking for informed expert opinion on this. I am a social

• Posted in: Tenancy status and mutual exchanges.

  Paul Jones's post | 16/05/2012 11:04 pm

  Those with lifetime (periodic) tenacies swapping with another person with the same will still swap using a "Deed of Assignment" and take over eachother's tenancies, not begin new tenancies.  BUT, if fixed-term or "affordable rent" is involved on either side, new tenancies are started. I have studied the Localism Bill and this is what it says.

• Posted in: being evicted

  Paul Jones's post | 12/05/2012 0:45 am

  I'd like to add that you have my compassion. This is an awful situation and the council are behaving terriby. It may be worth getting your local paper on to this. The council hate to be shown up for failing their duties in the papers.

  "CARER TOLD GET OUT OF COUNCIL HOME" etc

• Posted in: being evicted

  Paul Jones's post | 12/05/2012 0:40 am

  You were misinformed the first time round (from what you said).  As far as I know you could have been put on the tenancy agreement somehow back then. Perhaps you could argue that point?  A "Deed of Assignment" is an important legal document. It certainly does make a difference. It "assigns" the tenancy (under certain circumstances) to another person.  It sounds to me like you are being maltreated by the council who are intimidating you out of your home. If you have any illness or mental health problem yourself please don't be shy to talk to Shelter about this.  I'd hope a court would not throw you out of your home after you have been misinformed to your disadvantage while caring for a sick mother, and especially if you are a "vulnerable" person in any way yourself.

• Posted in: Tenancy status and mutual exchanges.

  Paul Jones's post | 12/05/2012 0:27 am

  If you swap with another old style tenancy person you'll be OK as you will take over their tenancy.  New rules mean that if you swap with an "affordable" rent tenant or a fixed-term tenant the landlord is expected to allow you to keep your status as a permanent tenant, BUT, you would have to accept the rent level of your new place, whatever that was.

• Posted in: Fire risk or not?

  Paul Jones's post | 20/04/2012 3:11 pm

  This sounds like a product recall situation. Whatever the expense, safety must come first.

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