Come April
all those tenants living in social housing will be thrown into
turmoil. 1st. April sees the implementation of the
millionaire ConDem's new “bedroom tax” come into operation. This
will be a severe kick in the teeth for millions across the country.
What this translates into is that couples, children of the same sex
and children under 10 years of age of different sex, should share a
bedroom. If after this arrangement you have a spare room, you will
have options. You can move out to a smaller house, take a lodger or
pay a fine on a monthly basis. This is the dictate from those who
have several homes, all of which will have an abundance of spare
rooms. The facts on the ground prove that they can't square the
circle. Which is not unusual for this mob, according to
figures
from the Department for Work and Pensions, at least
600,000 one bedroom flats will be needed to house tenants who
currently fall into the “under-occupying” category. Are the
apartments there? Well the answer is no, at present social housing
landlords have approximately 360,000 one bedroom flats on their
books. To add to the chaos of this completely ill-thought scheme,
there are only about 300,000 families who need a 3 bedroom apartment,
while social housing landlords have available 560,000. So if you are
“classified” as a one bedroom tenant, there is a good chance you
will have to accept a larger apartment and be fined for the social
housing inadequacies. Like wise if they make sure they only fit
tenants into the”right sized box”, then there will be thousands
who will have to be homeless and thousands of apartments will have to
lie empty as there are not enough “right sized” families to suit. Apart from the possible penalty if you stay put in a home with a spare room, there is the trauma of uprooting elderly people who have probably lived their entire life in that particular home, and shunting them miles away from friends and family. As well as the upset of forcing a family to move when they may not want to move, for whatever reason, job, school, family etc.. Who gives them the right to say where you should live, when you should move and how many should sleep in any room in your home?
Stupidity driven by austerity ideology, another experiment in social
engineering. How many should sleep in a room controlled by the
millionaire cabal, to make sure that the peasants don't get a modicum
more than is minimum to survive. Will they suddenly build all the
right size apartments to fulfil their plans? Not likely, they are
more likely to attempt to introduce legislation to force you to limit
or increase your family to suit their housing stock. In their world
of control, plans come before people.
If this doesn't raise the anger of the general public to boiling point, then I don't know what will.
ann arky's home.
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