By people on normal incomes I mean the van drivers, teachers, nurses, shop workers, care workers, painters and decorators, clerical workers, secretaries, gardeners, nursery workers, IT assistants,street cleaners,occupational therapists, call centre workers, charity workers,etc etc who may well some of them nowadays have to get housing benefit because rents are too high, not because they are in some way bad.Community resposes could include: Housing co-ops; enabling older people now living alone, to share their housing with younger people; actively creating lobbying groups that are not party political, to influence the council/central govt to ensure affordable housing is part of every development still;bringing housing associations and TRA's into every local discussion on housing, so they can continue to offer affordable housing in town houses if they still own any, keeping the mix of residents; and challenging the tory demonising of council tenants, clearly a clumsy attempt to prepare the way to forcing them away from their homes, and area of birth/schooling/work/friendship.Our collective housing benefit bill is so high purely because local rents are so obscenely high. Landlords gain from this, not tenants. Simples.
Elizabeth Spring ● 4626d