Tag Archive for 'housing eligibility'

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EU citizens and social housing

By NL on 29/05/2007. 0 Comments

Head of Legal had an interesting post in response to my post on Hodge’s outburst (the ramifications of which rumble on, including the BNP noting gratefully that they win whether the ideas become policy or if they are not carried through. Unfortunately true. Well done Margaret).

EU worker Head of Legal, I think, suggested that Directive 2004/38 (pdf) overrode most of the current restrictions on EU citizens being workers or workseekers in order to have benefit and housing entitlement. In particular, he suggested that they would be entitled during the first 3 months in any case and also when not workseekers, because they retain the right to reside if they become incapable … Read the full post

Posted in Allocation, Housing law - All and secure-tenancy. Tags: Allocation, EU citizen, housing eligibility, Housing law - All, law.

Local housing for local people

By NL on 20/05/2007. 3 Comments

Margaret Hodge has decided that this is a good time to say that too much Council housing is going to economic migrants at the expense of local residents. Allocation policies should be rethought to reward ‘length of residence, citizenship and national insurance contributions’.

Carefully, the Industry Minister has managed to conflate the ‘coming over here taking our housing’ and the ‘un/deserving poor’ knee jerk reactions. Housing for the hardworking poor British, cries the Barking MP. Co-incidentally Barking and Dagenham have made the BNP the second largest party on the local Council. Margart Hodge