Asylum seekers don’t just disappear once they are “processed”.
This is what I mean when I say that cutting benefits and services costs us money. People don’t stop needing help they just fall back on other services. Cut mental health teams, the police end up dealing with people in crisis. Cut benefits, local authorities have to spend money housing homeless families.
Councils could just relax planning permission and let the market create space for them…
Damn so we gonna pay 2Bil to some rich land and business owners for rent than build houses
Yet more dividends from selling off council housing!
Currently working in a temp accommodation that’s being decommissioned, we charge the council £2000+ PER ROOM of the 15 bed household. Then we charge the residents a service charge on top.
Well It’s a good thing, councils have houses to home these people in…….oh wait no they were sold !
A problem caused by the Right To Buy legislation and NIMBYs.
Mostly NIMBYs, because they prevent building the housing necessary to house these people. If we had enough housing so there was no shortage, rents would be affordable – because the price of housing would be what people want to pay, not the maximum landlords can get.
I mean, as a tax payer… Good? I’d rather structural issues with housing supply and the money going to private landlords rather than council owned or non-profits was different, but here we are. If we’re spending money, I’m glad it’s putting roofs over people’s heads.
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Asylum seekers don’t just disappear once they are “processed”.
This is what I mean when I say that cutting benefits and services costs us money. People don’t stop needing help they just fall back on other services. Cut mental health teams, the police end up dealing with people in crisis. Cut benefits, local authorities have to spend money housing homeless families.
Councils could just relax planning permission and let the market create space for them…
Damn so we gonna pay 2Bil to some rich land and business owners for rent than build houses
Yet more dividends from selling off council housing!
Currently working in a temp accommodation that’s being decommissioned, we charge the council £2000+ PER ROOM of the 15 bed household. Then we charge the residents a service charge on top.
Well It’s a good thing, councils have houses to home these people in…….oh wait no they were sold !
A problem caused by the Right To Buy legislation and NIMBYs.
Mostly NIMBYs, because they prevent building the housing necessary to house these people. If we had enough housing so there was no shortage, rents would be affordable – because the price of housing would be what people want to pay, not the maximum landlords can get.
I mean, as a tax payer… Good? I’d rather structural issues with housing supply and the money going to private landlords rather than council owned or non-profits was different, but here we are. If we’re spending money, I’m glad it’s putting roofs over people’s heads.