Another council is looking for privately rented accommodation of all sizes to resettle refugees.
Since 2016, Stratford-on-Avon council has resettled many refugee families. The first were resettled through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. More recently, Stratford has provided refuge to more than 360 Ukrainians fleeing the war in Ukraine, as well as those seeking to escape conflict and persecution in Afghanistan and a small number of refugees from other countries including Iraq, through the UK Resettlement Scheme.
Now - with a timescale of the next three years - Stratford-on-Avon council has pledged to resettle nine more families through the UKRS scheme and 20 through the Afghan schemes. There are no specific resettlement pledges numbers for Ukrainian households.
To make for a smooth and sustainable resettlement, support workers and interpreters assist families as they settle into the neighbourhood, helping them to engage with services, arrange hospital appointments and enrol in schools and nurseries.
Now an appeal has gone out to local landlords are encouraged to contact the council if they have a self-contained property to let.
Funding is available to cover up to six-weeks void period prior to occupation, and rent in advance can be paid to meet terms of any tenancy agreement.
Tenants receive Universal Credit Housing Cost payments to the maximum Local Housing Allowance rate, which can be paid directly to landlord; if there is a shortfall between UCHC payments and the market rent, funding is available to provide a top up for up to 24-months.
If any landlord is interested they can email: socialinclusion@stratford-dc.gov.uk.
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They want our help now, but when we need their help, with the same tenant's they provide us with, they have no sympathy for LL's.
Make an absolute fortune doing short lets there and the alternative is this. Why would you then put yourself through all that nonsense receiving top ups up to 24 months then they cannot afford it.
What happens then? the very same council will back them and advise them to go through Acorn, Shelter to fk you over and whatever you get in top ups evaporatse as you fight a legal battle to get them out because they cannot afford it. Not their fault but not the landlords either.
A right cheek that central and local Peloton Champions think this is the right way to behave. Should have engaged landlords at a national level to find a way forward.
I would personally never rent property that the council had anything to do with.
I’ve rented twice to the council with all the promises in the world of them.
Guess what, I’ve only ever had to evict two tenancies and yes you’ve got it, it was the council ones.
Once they have there people move in they don’t want to know the LL.
SO where the Sun don’t shine mr council
So Council would like landlords help while going out of their way to destroy us.
Jeremy Hunt Chancellor another clown on the Martin Lewis show. Promoting The Renters Reform Bill, what can we expect a medical in charge of Finances (we are nice to him just because of his medical connections), he thinks lumbering landlords with Eviction Bans is the answer the Moran.
Ironically, I believe Jeremy Hunt is a landlord!
As is usual council practice, My council coerced my tenant into forcing me to court for a possession order. Which took a year of waiting, worry and stress to achieve.
Then the same council sends me an email asking if I would sell my property to them!
My response was unequivocal, don’t repeatedly sh**t on those whose help you seek/need!
So if you are struggling speak to your lender, speak to your lender with your 40 year Mortgage’s.
Suppose you are a Tenant struggling they are not told to speak to Their Landlords, that’s not a problem ride roughshod over him and introduce Eviction Bans.
There is no Ban on Lenders Charges, time for Hunt & Gove to go with their Treasonable Draconian policies.
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