Alle persone con reddito più basso viene negato l’accesso agli alloggi sociali, rileva una ricerca
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/08/people-on-lowest-incomes-being-denied-access-to-social-housing-research-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
di topotaul
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Got to make room for those moving out of hotels by 2029. Despite them also having their rent paid for by the government.
Priorities, right? Why are we happy to let people on benefits go homeless?
Social housing is just such a bad system. The rent discount should be means tested so people in social housing don’t just end up with lots of disposable income while the working people without access to social housing get nothing and struggle to get by or save up.
Surely housing associations requiring less risky applicants shouldn’t be allowed. I would have thought the whole point should be that they are available to less ‘desirable’ (from a landlords point of view) tenants. I suppose it’s just a massive supply and demand problem anyway though
Sadly, this is the most unfortunate consequence of the public sector virtually withdrawing wholesale from building social housing at scale, the government continuing the ruinous sale of social housing and leaving social housing provision to the commercial residential property market. The very property market that exists to generate profits and cater for people who can afford private sale and rent new housing….
I mean. Can we in the first instance push back against language (and associated systems) like “affordability checks”.
‘Hi I need somewhere to live because I am person / family living in UK in 2025″
“OK let me just do an affordability check”
No? Like no no no?
Got to think about none British people first, you know the rules!
People on lowest income will most likely get housing benefit. Since housing benefit being paid directly to the landlord has been scraped. Social housing has to hope that people who get that benefit will spend it on their rent. This is nothing new social housing around here needs bank records for the last three years months to make sure you can afford the rent. It is just getting worse due to inflation and prices increasing.
The article didn’t make sense to me until I got to this section
> Crisis called on the government to adopt a Scottish-style system, where housing associations are legally obliged to rehouse homeless households. No such obligation exists in England.
As a Scot I wasn’t aware that England applied different rules. I was aware shelter had taken Glasgow City Council to court to provide housing for the homeless as it’s a human right that GCC were failing to provide. Presumably the English don’t have human rights?
https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/policy_library/housing_is_a_human_right