Instead what we have is a glut of fly-by-night landlords who bought a second property thinking it would finance their pensions after 30yrs when the mortgage is paid off by charging extortionate rents on ordinary working people who can barely keep their heads above water.
Where there is no benefit to a tax credit or tax refund, offer a grant equivalent to the tax refund...its not that hard to resolve, is it?
"The rich"; taxing them is the solution to everything. Pay attention!to fund this policy initiative would you mind outlining where resources would be taken from?
"The rich"; taxing them is the solution to everything. Pay attention!
I'd like all welfare and benefits paid in the form of refundable tax credits. It is far simpler and more efficient and should reduce the administrative overhead on the State significantly over the medium term.If that is the case then tax credits or tax refunds aren't going to be much of an incentive are they?
Good, and in case you are wondering who "the rich" are they are everyone who earns more than you.I keep forgetting!!
Good, and in case you are wondering who "the rich" are they are everyone who earns more than you.
Yep, and none of them ended up that way because they are smarter or work harder than you. It's all because of the capitalist system and the social injustice it produces. The Jews or the Lizard people are, in turn, probably behind that system.And there are far too many of them!!
So first of all you give someone a place at a vastly reduced price compared to what they would have to pay if they paid for it themselves and then in order to move them somewhere more suitable you give them even more money?
In case you haven't figured out by now, money doesn't grow on trees, so to fund this policy initiative would you mind outlining where resources would be taken from?
I've had problems with mould in my rented house. I bought mould-spray and cleared it up and made sure the kids opened their bedroom windows regularly.
I've had problems with rats, killings a few in traps in my kitchen. I told my landlord and he got Rentokill out. I did some work plugging holes and lined and plastered some old cupboards.
Not evictions in my book. Someone gets a house for a huge discount for a period of say 5 years and at the end of this they are assessed compared to others on the waiting list. If there is someone else more deserving the occupant vacates.The resources that would have otherwise been spent on your 5yr plan to assess housing, the staff, the legislation to support it, the cost of employing bouncers to enact the evictions, the court appeals and the pay for the judges , barristers etc.
I honestly don't know regarding the cost, but the current model of getting a place for life instills a culture of dependency.I think my system would be more efficient, cost -effective and satisfactory all round, especially if it extends to the private sector where the vast bulk of under-occupancy exists, don't you?
Not evictions in my book. Someone gets a house for a huge discount for a period of say 5 years and at the end of this they are assessed compared to others on the waiting list. If there is someone else more deserving the occupant vacates.
I honestly don't know regarding the cost, but the current model of getting a place for life instills a culture of dependency.
It does indeed; I fix things so it costs him less so he charges me less. Everyone's happy. I'd like a nicer house but I can't afford one and I don't expect anyone else to provide one for me as I'm an able bodied adult and so I'm responsible for providing for myself and I certainly don't expect others to subsidise my lifestyle. I know that's not an attitude you approve of but for me it comes down to self respect.I know you are paying below market rate, but that explains it somewhat.
Rubbish.People who work for low-incomes living in social housing are no more dependent on the State than are the employers who pay them low wages to remain competitive and stay in business.
There you go again; you are attempting to invalidate a general point, a policy, by asking the poster to provide every minute detail of how it would be implemented. It's utterly childish to behave like that.Yeh, we have been through this before. How do you get the 'less deserving' occupant to vacate? What is the criteria for 'more' or 'less' deserving? Is it a simple calculation on the availability of rooms against the number of occupants? What if the homeless family refuse the accommodation?
There you go again; you are attempting to invalidate a general point, a policy, by asking the poster to provide every minute detail of how it would be implemented. It's utterly childish to behave like that.
I'd like a nicer house but I can't afford one and I don't expect anyone else to provide one for me as I'm an able bodied adult and so I'm responsible for providing for myself and I certainly don't expect others to subsidise my lifestyle.
Rubbish.
That contradicts just about everything else you've posted on this thread.That's an attitude I approve of.
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