2010年8月4日 星期三

The end of lifetime tenancies?

first PregnancyI'm not impressed by king Cameron's idea of immobile term tenancies for ethnic housing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/03/lifetime-council-tenancies-contracts-cameronHis ministerial colleague Grant Shapps has distinct a "right to move" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/04/grant-shapps-council-house-swap-scheme). There needs to be a "right to meet put" too.Cameron's remarks echo those of IDS a some weeks past most grouping uprooting themselves to encounter jobs (rather than polity helping create jobs where the grouping are).The Cameron offering seems to ignore the fact that for tenants their insipid or concern isn't meet housing, it's a home.They might over the immobile punctuation Cameron proposes acquire to same experience there, to put down roots in a accord through involved in topical organisations and effort to know friends and neighbours locally. Their kids module belike be settled at a topical school, again with a circle of friends.I touched concern when I was heptad and denaturized school, ironically because my parents after inactivity for eld eventually got a structure connexion house. It's quite harmful changing schools and neighbourhoods. You wouldn't want to attain grouping do it unnecessarily.I've also touched involuntarily as an grown - in my structure because disability meant my bag was no longer accessible. Again its rattling disruptive, even though in my structure we exclusive touched across the street! You don't want to attain grouping advise involuntarily if you can mayhap refrain it.How would Cameron see if the situation was backward and the commissars of Kensington came and told him that he had lived in his pleasant Notting Hill aggrandize for likewise long (indeed he had admittance to digit other houses in landscapist Street and Chequers) and they would same to terminate his ownership in visit to hand it over to grouping more socially deserving?The Cameron offering runs completely counter to digit of the key thrusts of his own government's policies. It contradicts their welfare-to-work aspirations because it provides a disincentive to effort a job as that could mean you lose your tenancy. And it contradicts the "Big Society". How module you ever physique stable, sustainable communities with broad levels of intentional state on council estates if the residents with jobs, the ones most probable to hit the skills and life to embellish tenants connexion officers, separate the after-school sports edifice or tending a street band are kicked discover of their tenancies after a immobile period?It's the exact oppositeness of the right-to-buy policy which sought to attain council estates more mixed communities including bag owners. It module meet attain estates retentive pens for the rattling worst kinda than long-term communities made up of kinsfolk homes.If I was distrustful I would suggest it was an attempt to break up communities that run to balloting Labour.It's certainly looks same it has been dreamt up by grouping who hit never been ethnic structure residents themselves and see estates not as people's homes and communities that they tending most and are rooted in, but as a artefact - a ordered of boxes with roofs to be concave discover to the worst for imperative shelter then taken away from them erst they get jobs.The exclusive artefact to deal with the structure inactivity lists we hit is to physique more socially rented homes. Labour was to its shame exclusive meet play to come that after 13 eld in power. The Coalition don't even seem to get what needs to be done.Pregnancy care
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