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[Germanicus]

For most young people, it's common sense to stay at home until you can afford to buy or rent a place of your own.
But thousands of unemployed youngsters are claiming housing benefit through a loophole the Government is hoping to slam shut.


Downing Street wants to force unemployed people under 25 to move back in with their parents while they look for work.
The initiative, still at a very early stage, is part of David Cameron's plan to ensure people are better off working than on benefits.
Speaking of his plans to reduce Britain's Welfare Bill, the Prime Minister said yesterday: 'For years people said "you can’t reform and cut welfare - the bills are bound to get higher, this is a fact of British life and there’s nothing you can do about it".
'We said - hang on - it can’t be right that we pay people more to stay at home than go out to work. We’ve been the first government to come in and properly get a grip on this.'

'It can't be right to pay out £40,000, £50,000, £60,000 in housing benefit to families where no one works.'

The move is likely to be popular among voters, but some fear the Government could struggle to pass legislation.
David Cameron will outline plans to further slash Britain's welfare bill at a key speech in Wales
Emma Boon, campaign director of the TaxPayer's Alliance told the Daily Express: 'It will be hard to tell whether or not a young person has somewhere else appropriate to live.
'However, in principle it is a good idea. It is right that jobseekers who have some accommodation don't live at taxpayer's expense.'
Mr Cameron is expected to outline his plans to further attack Britain's welfare bill at a key speech, part of the Conservative Party's Welsh local election campaign.
The Government has already slashed benefit allowances.
Adult housing benefit claims have been capped at a maximum of £400 a week for a year - and from next April families with dependent children will only be able to claim a maximum of £500 a week, dropping to £350 for single people.
The Prime Minister is also expected to set his sights on thousands of British expats currently claiming benefits while living abroad
According to figures published in January, 10,000 expats are currently claiming up to £163.94 a week in sickness benefit - costing the taxpayer £50 million.
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[Fortis in Arduis]

This problem was caused by the shortage of social housing, exacerbated by immigration, forcing people into expensive privately rented accommodation, which was where I was for four years, living in Chelsea and Pimlico, unable to find a job to cover the rent.

It was not until I moved to Somerset and by chance got evicted and thus made 'homeless' by my landlord here that I used legislation for the protection of disabled folk like me to get put in the 'priority need' category, jump the social housing list to the nice (ground floor of a Georgian townhouse) flat that I have now!

I would otherwise have had to wait and bid for about five years.

THAT loophole closes with the coming of the Localism Bill, but I caught it just before it did.

It took a solicitor, £1000 in legal fees paid by my dad, and a two months in a homeless hostel to get it, and the Local Authority were very nasty about it; I considered taking one bitch out for the viciousness of my treatment when making my homelessness application.

They knew I had the loophole into fast-tracked social housing, and there was nothing their over-paid fat pasty-filled provincially-retarded asses could do about it, oh, and in five years time, the Tories might give me £75,000 to buy it, in all its Palladian Grade I listed glory.

Yes, the system fucked me, but I then proceeded to bum-rape the system dry, and just in time for the Localism Bill NOT to ruin it!

What are young/disabled/homeless people expected to do now? Cease to exist?

Get the wogs OUT!!!

[Grumpy Cat]

What is social housing like in the UK?

Here, a lot of it is falling apart, and it's dirty.

[Germanicus]

Social housing is pretty good, it depends on the council Aarea you live in. Every town or city must provide council housing, the rentage is pretty cheap. Of course illegals and ethnic minorities get favoured before white Brits

[RagnarLodbrok666]

Social housing is pretty good, it depends on the council Aarea you live in. Every town or city must provide council housing, the rentage is pretty cheap. Of course illegals and ethnic minorities get favoured before white Brits

Does immigration throw the retail market out of whack over in the UK?

[Graham]

What is social housing like in the UK?

Here, a lot of it is falling apart, and it's dirty.

Like Fortis says 'shortage of social housing'. That's due to the right to buy scheme since the 1980's. Which gave tenants of council housing the legal right to buy the home they were living in. That and barely any new council housing has been built since the 1980's..

There's high demand. But you're more likely to get one, if you're a drug addict, struggling single mother etc..
To be a first time buyer is alot harder back in my parents day, expensive. Renting is easier.

My first house as a child was a council house, the one I live in now is an ex council house.
There's some nasty housing and flats, some nice. Just very little for demand.

[Queen B]

And then, Greeks are blamed for their benefits

We don't have such thing here. And yes, many people still live with their parents.
For several reasons
1) To save money, so they can buy a house later
2) To save money from rent, and contribute to family income.
3) To avoid expenses in general, and save money for whatever reason

and now...

4) To survive Many people return to their families house, because less than 500€ are not enough for a salary, when the lease you have to pay for rent is 350€

Anyway, I think that this should exist, but specifically for some people. Not any kind of immigrant to wants to have a free house, neither to jobless youngesters, but families in need, disabled persons, etc

[Fortis in Arduis]

What is social housing like in the UK?

Here, a lot of it is falling apart, and it's dirty.

Mine looks like this. Nice, but needs restoration on the inside:



Social housing is somewhat administrated by Local Authorities, but now increasingly owned by housing associations, some of which have sprung from the property portfolios of those local councils, in a semi-privatisation drive.

It varies a lot, but in my local authority the last piece of concrete social housing was demolished.

Like Fortis says 'shortage of social housing'. That's due to the right to buy scheme since the 1980's. Which gave tenants of council housing the legal right to buy the home they were living in. That and barely any new council housing has been built since the 1980's..

Yes, and immigration... Renting privately is too expensive for people on low wages, and for the taxpayer who pays the rent via Housing Benefit, and that is what the moaning is all about. 'They' shouldn't have flooded the housing market with wogs to drive up property prices, should 'they'?

[Baron Samedi]

Looks pretty good on the outside, to be honest.

Better than our project houses.

[Germanicus]

Most housing associations Give the occupier the choice of part rent part buy, you can start off by buying 50% of the property outright and then just paying rent on the other 50% of the property.
Housing associations offer what they call stair casing, this means you can buy percentages, which usually is 25% per share.
As you climb in the ownership you still pay rent on the 25% you may not own, but remember, the rent increases annually.