Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
What the budget may do to the housing benefit locally.
Just published on the Guardian www site is an analysis of what the new budget will do to the housing benefit prepared by the Chartered Institute of Housing.
I attached the briefing note they prepared.
I have to say it is fairly opaque to me but here is what they think it will do to our area....
Of course the red is where it is a loss.
I am not sure where the 5 bed "New Allowances" have gone without trawling carefully through the doc. An analysis of a hypothetical couple with 3 kids on the links above suggest in Welwyn Hatfield suggest a loss of ~£1500 per year. But it is easy to think of hypothetical cases where it looks worse in our area. The briefing note has this in it:
Sadly it is not possible to see where the boundaries of the regions lie because as the grauniad notes.
Sorry if that is a bit grim. I did think it was of interest.
Overall I wonder if the people who voted for the coalition expected that?
Mark.
I attached the briefing note they prepared.
I have to say it is fairly opaque to me but here is what they think it will do to our area....
Of course the red is where it is a loss.
I am not sure where the 5 bed "New Allowances" have gone without trawling carefully through the doc. An analysis of a hypothetical couple with 3 kids on the links above suggest in Welwyn Hatfield suggest a loss of ~£1500 per year. But it is easy to think of hypothetical cases where it looks worse in our area. The briefing note has this in it:
Sadly it is not possible to see where the boundaries of the regions lie because as the grauniad notes.
Sorry if that is a bit grim. I did think it was of interest.
Overall I wonder if the people who voted for the coalition expected that?
Mark.
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Permalink Reply by Ian Willmore on
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Useful post, thanks.
We can expect - per the New Policy Institute report I blogged about recently - that a lot of HB recipients in Inner London will be evicted. Buy to let landlords will be looking for cheap London property with several bedrooms, however small. Tottenham can be expected to come under ever increasing housing pressure for this reason.
There is a problem with HB though, in that it goes straight down the gullets of greedy landlords and not to the claimant. In opposing the ugly mess about to be inflicted on us by this Coalition cut, we must consider what future alternative there might be. Of course, a renaissance of social housing is what is really needed. Fat chance of that for the time being.
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