Tories plan to chuck you out

Submitted by Matthew on 7 October, 2010 - 9:38 Author: Jack Roberts

David Cameron has said that “There is a question mark about whether, in future, we should be asking when you are given a council home, is it for a fixed period? Because maybe in five or 10 years you will be doing a different job and be better paid and you won’t need that home, you will be able to go into the private sector.”

Under Labour creeping privatisation of social housing saw an initial assault on tenants’ rights with “introductory tenancies” for Housing Association tenants which act very much like a probationary period in a permanent job. The Tories are looking to take this further.

For those who became social tenants because they are homeless, suffering domestic abuse or violent attack it would put a deadline on overcoming such circumstances — completely detached from the reality of the situation.

Vulnerable people will have to find a new place to live, maybe in a completely different neighbourhood, away from a job, a childs school, friends and relatives.

Social housing is being rolled up with the benefits system. Yet council housing has been seen by successive governments not as a state benefit, but as a profit-making directorate of local authorities that central government takes a sizeable slice from.

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