And yet schools are still making families pay for expensive logo uniform, punishing students for lack of equipment and saying behaviour is TikTok related not maybe hunger or stress. Imagine if you could kit your child out for £20 at Asda not £300. And if schools took cash.
So sorry to hear that Risu. The UK needs to build up, out, increase density and use our existing housing stock more efficiently.
Good thread. LHA rates are also set using data from existing tenancies which can be quite a bit lower than the rent for new tenancies, especially in a rising market.
As an aside, while the prospect of putting children on the street is the worst aspect of refreezing LHA, the group who suffer most from this system are people aged up to 35 without children. But that’s a story for another day
The thing is, last year’s unfreezing didn’t erase the problems built up during the preceding 4 year freeze. LHA is supposed to mean benefit claimants can afford to rent the cheapest 30% of properties in the area they live (adjusting for the number of bedrooms required) But too often it doesn’t work
But it is faux outrage for political posturing by the very parties who called for means-testing under previous governments with old age lobby groups coming in behind and charities jumping on the bandwagon because they received so many donations from…wealthy older people!
This is it. If they had couched the policy in e.g. this sort of narrative, wouldn't it have at least hampered the outrage? bsky.app/profile/inte...
“Since apartheid”😱😱😱
This isn't really correct. There will undoubtedly be exemptions for landlords who wish to sell or live in the property themselves. The Bill bans "no-reason" evictions. It won't fully ban no-fault ones.