Summary
If allowances for local authorities were funded at the level of actual need Plymouth would have an annual increase of pounds16.74m (pounds1,093.21 per tenant). Total allowances to manage, maintain and repair tenants' homes would be pounds50.15m instead of pounds33.41m under the present system.
The Campaign to Defend Council Housing reports: "Government has been siphoning money out of council housing year on year. This year (2008-09) the difference between the total rents tenants pay (nationally) and the amount council landlords receive from government in allowances is pounds1.7bn. Total rents are pounds6.4bn per year whilst councils only receive pounds4.7bn in allowances. It's outright robbery. It's even more cheek that they then try to blackmail tenants to accept privatisation on the basis that there's no money to fund improvements!"See the full content of this document
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Don't Give in to This Blackmail
In 2001 Government commissioned the Building Research Establishment to look at funding for Mana...
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