Agreed.
The problem with social housing is the affordability.
The 7.5 percent rise will generate about £500.000 for maintenance purposes.
However this will incur an extra cost of £900.000 to the Govt spent on benefits.
So you raise the rents to pay for maintenance and lose double to any gain!
(so why didn’t the Govt just hand the money over to the DOI and save on benefits).
The DOI had wanted to raise the rents by over 30% to cover the social housing deficit. If this had happened the benefits increase to the Govt would have been astronomical.
How much of a deficit is there?! it must be in the millions and growing.
Building more social housing using the current systems and tenancy agreements is obviously unaffordable.
It does appear that to some politicians having a captive social housing electorate in your constituency is a sure fire way of getting re-elected. So don’t upset the voters or you will be out on your ear.
We do need Social Housing but not this current model!
