grandad wrote:
captain cab wrote:
Absolute madness.
Why?
Because to me local authorities will employ inspectors with clipboards to go door to door finding out how many people live in a house - bearing in mind local authorities on the whole have sold off their housing stock to private companies - the whole thing just looks like big brother - perhaps because it is.
I get a genuine sense that this entire thing was brought about because of Daily mail readers being force fed stories about local authorities renting out £1million houses to Africans who receive housing benefits and don't pay - and maybe have aids.
I presume you are old enough to remember the housing schemes developed after the second world war - there is now (and has been since Thatcher) a stigma about social housing - but lets not forget why we have social housing - its because before the second world war people were living in slums.
This entire idea is degrading - what if a family live in an area for 20 years - have kids and the kids move away - do the man and wife then have to move - maybe to an area where there is a suitable house but many miles from where they have been for two decades?
Should the government decide that?
They mention pensioners being exempt - great for them - but what about 50 - 65 year olds - do they have to move?
Moreover - should it be decided by a bloke with a clip board or council committee - or private business?