On his blog for the BBC,
Michael Crick writes:
Rachel Smith, the wife of the Business Secretary, Vince Cable has attacked the coalition's plans to end life-long tenancies in social housing.
They would lead to a bureaucratic nightmare and solve nothing, she says in the new edition of the Liberal Democrat grassroots magazine Liberator.
"It is a seriously bad idea, though it tries to deal with a real problem," she says. "The review process every five years would be a nightmare. If you found yourself threatened with the loss of your home, wouldn't you make sure your household was at its biggest and poorest at the moment of review?"
I can see the practical problems, but I have some sympathy for
Tim Worstall's complaint:
we’ve this crazed system whereby if at one point in your life you need a housing subsidy then you get that subsidy for all your life.
Anyway, read more from
Liberator on the magazine's website.
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The only real solution is to remove the need for council housing and housing benefits - that however requires such a re-working of the economy that its politically unpalatable to even consider the steps required.
(look at how unlikely Land Value Tax is for example - even though its likely to be a step towards such a goal)
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