Ukrainian refugees unable to afford rental propertys

[zenfootball2]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-64030188
Ukrainian refugees could end up homeless because UK families cannot afford to keep accommodating them, one host in South Yorkshire has warned.
Monthly payments for families who have hosted refugees for a year are to rise from £350 to £500 in 2023, ministers said last week.
But that would come too late amid the cost of living crisis, Miranda Allen, a host in Sheffield, has said.

Ms Allen, of Meersbrook, said hosts were in "a very difficult position".


www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/ukrainians-returning-to-war-torn-country-due-to-unaffordable-uk-homes-mps-told/ar-AA18CxOJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=e6a3dd6c4dd64cb1837dfae6e33a1a86&ei=78


Ukrainian refugees have been forced to return to the war-torn country as homes in the UK are unaffordable, MPs have heard.

Concerns were also raised that hundreds more Ukrainian households in England are at risk of needing support for being homeless.

The House of Commons approved a non-binding motion which called on the Government to work with partner organisations and local authorities to ensure refugees facing and experiencing homelessness are supported during their time living in the UK.

[staffordshrew]

How anyone can afford a rental property is beyond me.

A 3 bed on a council estate, now privately owned, is £750 a month. That's a lot to chuck down the drain each month.

[ssshrew]

It’s yet another example of Boris making a grand gesture on the hoof without thinking through the aftermath.

[zenfootball2]

Mar 16, 2023 15:22:55 GMT 1 staffordshrew said:

How anyone cab afford a rental property is beyond me.

A 3 bed on a council estate, now privately owned, is £750 a month. That's a lot to chuck down the drain each month.

many cant especial familys on low wages and young people, many young people have come home to live with there parents . the whole rental market needs a rethink personally i would opt for non for profit trusts who rent flats out at much more afordable rentals. or even better follow the model used in Vienna


www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2019/09/housing-basic-human-right-vienna-model-social-housing

"Housing as a basic human right“: The Vienna model of social housing"


"A director of the Viennese housing and planning department, he is tasked with the maintenance of Vienna’s impressive system of subsidised public housing, a hallmark of the city’s social-democratic traditions going back a century. In the Austrian capital, more than 60 per cent of residents live in 440,000 social homes, about half owned directly by the municipal government and the rest by state-subsidised, not-for-profit co-operatives. These council houses are not built just for the low-paid, unemployed or hard up. Nor do they resemble the so-called “sink estates” lamented in the rhetoric of the British political classes. The upper income threshold for a single person to qualify for a social home is €45,510, or £40,000 – a yearly salary that would put you in around the 80th percentile, or the top 20 per cent of earners in the UK."

[staffordshrew]

Mar 16, 2023 16:11:45 GMT 1 ssshrew said:

It’s yet another example of Boris making a grand gesture on the hoof without thinking through the aftermath.

We live in a world where blustering buffoons rule.