k m's List: OSSIAN Housing

• Chartered Institute of Housing
• Since the start of the year
• came into effect last month
• The measure only affects tenants renting flats in the private sector, and not those living in council properties, but with waiting lists for council flats stretching into many years, large numbers of families who are on low incomes currently rely on housing benefit payments to subsidise or cover private rents.
• The government has capped all housing benefit payments at £250 a week for a one-bedroom property and a maximum of £400 for a place with four or more bedrooms.
• The measure is being phased in gradually, as tenancies expire, and the full impact will only be clear at the end of the year.
• Chartered Institute of Housing
• Six weeks into the new system
• Housing officials from Westminster recently visited the school
• Mick Beirne, a tenancy relations officer with the council
• government had expected the measure to push rents down
• government had expected the measure to push rents down
• For those who are unable to renegotiate rents, there is an annual £3.7m discretionary fund, to give temporary support to those who need to stay.
• Ben Denton, Westminster's strategic director of housing
• , regeneration and worklessness
• Is it fair for the state to provide subsidy for people to live in places that are the most expensive? Is it correct for the state to support anyone to live wherever they want to live?
• Westminster's housing department
• £340 weekly cap
• evict the family on 14 November
• Karen Buck, Labour MP for Westminster North,
• evicted from her basement flat by her landlord last October
• Samantha Halliwell
• from Z2K
• Helen Jenner, director of children's services for Barking and Dagenham council
• Romin Sutherland

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• will have their maximum rate of benefit restricted to the rate for a room in a shared house
• couples under 35

• simpler system helps to speed up the administration of housing payments giving claimants more confidence when starting a job that any in-work benefit will be paid quickly.