Social housing tenants now allowed to take in Ukranian refugees

I think social housing tennants should be allowed to take in refugees. But considering their rent is likely to be a fraction of what mortgage holders / private renters pay they should be given a much reduced allowance from the government. Say 100 per month or something.

Good idea. I'd love to see the amount of applicants for the cash payment versus the amount if it was a credit.

I can see it would be difficult to assess food bills but certainly utility bills would be easier to monitor but all this said , if Refugees are in receipt of SW payments, Children's allowance and medical cards , surely the only real cost to anyone housing them would be an increase in Utilities 🤔

Oh my God! Someone's getting the free monies again and I'm not. Waah, waah, waah!

You could always sign up and house a traumatised war refugee who can't speak your language and profit from their pain yourself, OP. Unless you want to fully support them yourself? We could always leave them out in the street. Or better yet, just leave them to be bombed, or starved out in a shelter. That's a far better outcome to you feeling somehow done over because people are incentivised to put a roof over a head, isn't it?

Have a word with yourself.

Social hoousing shouldn't be used to house refugees. Not when we don't have enough housing to house the people who pay for it.

So would the house holder get 400 a month, and the new tenant get their welfare and entitlements ?

So if you took on a new tenant got 400 euro a month, that would cover a monthly payment for a top of the range electric car.

Although depends on how long they stay for too...

If a social tenant has the room to take in refugees they are in the wrong size house for their needs

Agreed but you cant realistically deal with that. It would take years and years to solve.

Not bad if you have a spare room ensuite and you're taking in an intelligent creative earthy sober quite type of person. 400 euro a month I'd buy that for a dollar :)

Yeah, well. Possible scenario: a family with kids renting from the council. Kids grow up and leave. Two or even one parent are in the house. Moving them into a smaller house is stressful and, very importantly, expensive -- you cannot just give the old house to someone, it needs to be refurbished and possibly even retrofitted with with energy saving insulation or a heat pump. That's €50-100K. New smaller house needs to be build and furnished, that's another expense.

Better keep the old dears where they are and allow them to share their rooms if that's possible.

Hopefully this is a move towards housing more social tenants in under occupied houses. Not sure about the payment part as the Social Housing tenant doesn't own the property but I do think getting more people into social houses with spare rooms is a good thing.