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1Labour helps local people with 2009 council rents 1 Citation Under an extra subsidy scheme announced by Labour Housing Minister Margaret Beckett on Friday the average guideline rent increase for local authority tenants in 2009/10 will now be halved from 6.2% to around 3.1 % to encourage councils to reduce the amount tenants would have to pay for the coming year. The changes to the guideline rent increase means tenants should see a marked drop in their proposed average rent increase for the coming year from around £4 per week to approximately just under £, technorati.com
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Mortgage lending hit record low in January » Housing » 24dash.com 1 Citation The number of mortgages advanced to people buying a home slumped to a new record low in January, figures showed today. Just 23400 loans were taken out by people purchasing a property during the month - 28% fewer than in December and 52% ..View original here: Mortgage lending hit record low in January » Housing » 24dash.comTags: alisonbrown, basis-type, council-housing, education, environment, housing, jobs, mortgage, rough-sleeping, technorati.com
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A theory on the housing bubble 1 Citation It is pretty clear by now that the origin of the bubble was the push to increase home ownership among low income people. The first action in this direction was the Community REinvestment Act passed in the Carter Administration. The role of the CRA has been disputed by left-leaning commentators including the oddly named ?Businessweek, which represents the views of few businessmen I now. Still, you can learn a lot of history by reading between the lines of opposing views. The Community Reinve, technorati.com
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1 Citation Almost ten years ago what was "Caltongate King" Manish Chande up t o? Drinking energy drinks and running past pop star`s houses. Nowadays he is throwing champagne receptions and renting 8 council houses from the City of Edinburgh Council, denying people in the capital a home. "A £300m deal with Land Securities will make property chief Manish Chande a major construction client, but contractors aren't his favourite people. It's just after lunch and Manish Chande br, technorati.com
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Airboy does Mauritius in 2009 / Atlantis Resort in Dubai 1 Citation Before I go on and rant about this dreamy place I just went to. I?ll bore you for a few minutes more and let you all know that I finally paid a visit to the Palm Jumeirah and its now famous Atlantis resort. Earlier on last year (November 4th I think) they opened the place , technorati.com
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Government drag feet on Tenant Tax 1 Citation Changes to the massive negative subsisy that takes about £3 million per year from Council Tenants in King's Hedges, and just under £12 million from Cambridge as a whole, have been delayed again. The Labour Government have delayed consultation on changes to the scheme, which was due to start in November last year until the "autumn" of this year. The scheme must be changed to be fairer to areas like King's Hedges. Amng the possible reasons for delay is the fact that the Labour Government, technorati.com
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1 Citation From the Evening Advertiser Letters Page CAN I please ask all Parks and Walcot tenants to attend a meeting on February 19 at 6.30pm in Goddard Park Primary School. I knew nothing of this meeting until a neighbour informed me. It is a meeting about the council handing its stock (our homes) over to a housing association. This means (no matter what the council says) that our rent could go up as much as £99 per week. I know this as my friend lives in Park North, literally a stones throw from, technorati.com
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Suffer little children to suffer? 1 Citation I was watching Watchdog on TV last night. There was a very distressing story about the abysmal way a family has been treated by Greenwich Council. This family has four children and live currently in a two-bedroom flat. Now I know people will say, and one person actually emailed in to say it, that they shouldn't have had the children in the first place. I always think that's a very petty and nasty retort, because it includes the children in the vitriole. There is always going to be nastiness arou, technorati.com
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1 Citation It's reported today that Northern Rock is to offer offer up to £14bn extra in new mortgages over the next two years to help kick-start the ailing housing market. Would it not be more to the point for semi-nationalised concerns to start working with the Government to addres the real crisis we face in social housing for rent? At a time when job securioy and the ability to save deposits for mortgages are both utterly skwed by the state of the economy, surely it's the moment to take back the, technorati.com
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SNP Government to Build 900 new houses 1 Citation From SNP website:- A return to council housing was launched today as the SNP Government announced support for over 900 new council homes across Scotland. Funding of £17 million will see homes built from East Lothian to Orkney as the SNP continues to turn around Scotland?s social housing. Under Labour only 6 council homes were built in eight years. The SNP has also moved to abolish right to buy on new build houses. Half of the funding will support homes in Edinburgh and the Lothians wer, technorati.com
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