Eden council in Cumbria says it needs private landlords’ help to solve its housing problems - and there “may” be financial incentives.
Cllr Judith Derbyshire, housing and health portfolio holder at Eden council, says: “We believe that everyone should have a place to call home. No two properties or tenants are the same, so we tailor our support for each tenant, based upon their needs.”
So the council has launched what it calls its Property Links scheme to match those that are facing homelessness with private landlords who are looking for long-term tenants.
The council is looking for all types of properties in Eden which are available for private rent.
Benefits of the scheme include no management fees or commission – landlords retain 100 per cent of the agreed rental income - plus a free comprehensive property inventory at the start and end of the tenancy.
There will be a dedicated officer to provide support and signposting to both tenant and landlord, and landlords retain full control and decision making throughout the tenancy.
At the end of the statement launching the plea to the private rental sector, the council says: “Financial incentives may also be available to landlords, subject to criteria.”
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Nope. Not now, not ever. Goodbye.
I live on the south coast and get weekly emails from the local council asking the same. Same answer - no
I don't want those kind of tenants, they need to be housed in social housing on council / housing assoc' estates not next door to owner occupiers that would be simply wrong and very unfair on the neighbors
Your comments range between inane and laughable. This one's another cracker.
A good percentage of private tenants ARE private tenants simply because they can't get social housing. Another good percentage are private tenants waiting for social housing. They are next to owner occupiers right now with no problems whatsoever.
I was born and brought up in a council house in the 50's and most of the neighbours were salt of the earth with others often yielding to peer pressure to behave and keep the place tidy.
Council estates nowadays are either mostly privately owned and decent or mostly like Beirut with neighbours from hell due to lack of peer pressure.
Most people working 40 to 50 hours a week now buy their own homes, leaving the council estates to decay due to a mix of tenant neglect and council incompetence - and YES, I have been in council estates regularly over my entire working life to see these changes for myself.
@ Robert Brown
I was brought up in 2 council houses in the 80's and 90's. No problems whatsoever.
My mum lived in 2 council houses over the course of 30 years after my parents divorced. No problems whatsoever.
My (now) wife and I's first house after my daughter was born was a council house. Best place I've ever lived.
The house we've now bought was an ex council property that we got for a steal, and of our 10 or 12 immediate neighbours, 9 of them are council tenants including our next door neighbours. We have had 2 sets of council tenants next door during the 9 years we've been here.
No problems whatsoever, from anyone.
My mum and sister both live in council properties. No problems... getting boring repeating myself now.
I left home at 17, and between the ages of 17 and 24, lived in over a dozen bedsits, flats and HMO's. Between my eldest and youngest being born we also rented houses privately as a family before buying.
In my previous career as a sparky, I spent 24 yeaars working in well over 1000 properties, both social and private. I now also own 6 investment properties myself.
I know both sectors intimately, first hand. What they're like today, and have been over the past 25 years. Not in the 50's.
Even if you don't believe me, the numbers don't lie. Over 2m council tenants in the UK claim no benefits whatsoever. They work like you and me. And like you and me they also pay their share of the tax burden that pays for the genuine scum. They don't deserve tarnishing with the same brush, and they are entitled to expect policy that helps them, just as you or I are.
Max
You're reinforcing my point about there being two different types of council estates and two different types of council tenants.
Those considered suitable get allocated to the type of council properties which are also in demand from purchasers who, like you, want to get them cheap and leave the councils with a diminishing stock to rent to those who can't or won't buy their own property.
The properties in the Beruit type estates wouldn't be bought by anyone of sound mind other than the type of landlord who is happy to own slum properties and rent to those tenants who would not be considered for decent properties by most private landlords.
I agree that there are around 2 million decent tenants in or wanting to rent council properties but I also counter that anyone in decent employment willing to work long hours can get on the housing ladder, perhaps not in the areas they would aspire to, but not too far away from them. The real cruelty is if someone who has scrimped and saved the deposit for their own home then finds nightmare neighbours who are rogue tenants who cannot easily be evicted no matter how antisocial their behaviour. By being ultra careful in our selection of tenants, we're helping such owner occupiers to avoid living next door to scum who would blight their lives.
I have to concur with both Grumpy Doug and Andrew Townshend..... Not ever, i work in a job which deals with the '' difficult to place '' tenants ! Holy good god would i never wish to live near them, being in close contact with them in work is one thing, to have them as neighbours, my worst nightmare...... as said above, it is not fair on those who are owner occupiers. The type of tenant the council is talking about often have complex mental health and substance abuse issues, criminality is a given and causing severe ASB issues to the whole neighbourhood is common. The years of govt clamp downs on the PRS and the recent ban on evictions has taken the wind out of most LL's, we simply do not trust anything the govt/councils say...... they reap what they sow.
Surely you should know then that there are a wide range of tenants requiring social housing, not to mention the fact that the vast majority of tenants are 'difficult to place' by simple virtue of the size of the list, and the scarcity of properties? That has nothing to do with the 'type' of tenant they are, or whether they will be a problem or not.
There are 1.7m (almost half) social housing tenants who claim no benefits whatsoever. Another 250,000 are on social housing waiting lists. That's almost 2m people. Working people, couples and families who simply can't afford to buy, and in many cases, can't afford to private rent.
Numpties like Townshend above (who constantly comes out with ignorant pearlers on pretty much anything to do with social housing) think that each and every single social housing tenant is an inbred, drugged up and drunken baby machine, who shouldn't breath the same air as owner occupiers. This perception is as close to reality as thinking Santa brings the kids their Xmas presents, and there are literally millions of social housing tenants, or ones waiting for social housing, living next to owner occupiers right now, with no problems whatsoever.
These people are economically productive, and pay their taxes, just as you, I or dipsticks like Townshend begrudingly do, and a system that helps them along the way to becoming even more productive is a good thing.
Or we could label them all simply as 'social tenant', stick them in with the genuine scum and allow people such as yourself, who makes your living off the back of them, or Townshend who was clearly bulied by the local chav as a child, to carry on pushing the narrative.
Which is actually the exact same thing that councils do to landlords.
Your a sad deluded man Mr Boyne who has little experience of the kind of people we are talking about here .
He’s a 3rd rate troll , ignore him
If only we had an ignore function, he’d be a perfect fit
‘A good percentage of private tenants ARE private tenants simply because they can't get social housing’
Easily the most ridiculous comment I’ve read in a long time , I love parody accounts but max takes the Oscar here 😂
More ridiculous than thinking immigration isn't a problem because we have 'space' as per your comment yesterday??
I think not 😅
You are familiar with the concept of waiting lists yeah? Where do you think working families live while on the list?
Come on... I know you can get there if you try...
One council I deal with, at the main public access office, which deals mainly with social issues, has very few customers in the morning. Another council I am aware of has very few of the social housing occupiers paying any council tax. Tower blocks have had to be demolished, because they are "unpopular with tenants." I note that the description "sink estate" seems to have disappeared.
Max Boyne "bullied by the local chavs" tut tut tut.
Max, you obviously failed to observe the irony of the following post - "Walsall consulting on additional licencing".
Yet another council, with existing powers to deal with all the issues that they claim to be targeting, hitting the landlord community with costly licences to .... deal with all the issues that they claim to be targeting!
And you wonder why we really do not want to entertain a dialogue with them!
My council extracted £ thousands from me for .... sweet b****r all. Enough said
All councils operate an extortion racket, how else can 700 councils pay their chief executives more than the Prime Minister and some 3000 paying some staff 6 figures. They are generally a dumping ground for the chronically inept who could never find work in the real world.
The License Application used to be 16 pages plus all the Documents, now all gone Digital bits and pieces all over the place 49 pages but some might not apply to you, it’s so difficult and time consuming you can’t see it all together as you go along. I have had two rejected because of this Digital nonsense and required to make new applications even though they were licensed 3 times before its they who have
changed things, one of those houses I built 50 years ago by my own hand with only hand tools while living in a rented room. Now they the Council’s Bureaucracy is Awesome and a by far a bigger burden than building a house what could be more important.
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