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		<title>Shapps Private rent plans &#8211; bizarre and unworkable</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/shapps-rent-plans-yet-another-government-cock-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The consultation paper on RTB issued late December had a draft impact assessment (DIA) attached and it contains some serious implications for rented housing. I blogged about the 41% increase this holds for council tenants a few days ago which is three times the RPI inflation rate by 2015.  Here I look at the impacts &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=406&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rent cuts of 24% &#8211; 65% for hostels and refuges</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/rent-cuts-of-24-65-for-hostels-and-refuges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed changes to rent payments in supported housing are a real concern.  I have detailed 5 examples below and these reveal that even on a generous interpretation of the proposals that cuts range between 24% and 65% and all services become non-financially viable and will close. All of these services currently receive less than &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=51&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why hostels and DV refuges will close (2)</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/why-hostels-and-dv-refuges-will-close-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged on here that the changes the DWP wishes to impose on exempt and supported accommodation (ESA) rents are wrong and will have negative consequences particularly for hostels and refuges. An update to other proposed HB reforms was issued yesterday, by way of an Explanatory Note, concerning the move from under-25s to under-35s now getting &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=45&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inadvertant return of the resident warden?</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/the-inadvertant-return-of-the-resident-warden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged vociferously against the DWP paper as it will have a massive negative effect on supported housing and especially hostel and refuge provision (see elsewhere on here.)  I can easily foresee 20% of hostels and refuges closing within 12 months if the DWP proposals are brought in to replace exempt accommodation HB with &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=37&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DWP paper on rents &#8211; The Need for Reform is bunk! &#8211; Updated 2 Sept 2011</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/dwp-paper-on-rents-the-need-for-reform-is-bunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DWP has issued a purported consultation paper on reforming the way rent is paid for in supported housing.  This is in reality a nonsultation as the DWP is seeking to impose quite radical change that will severely threaten the financial viability of many supported housing services and especially hostel and refuge. This paper looks &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=30&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personalisation reduces choice in supported housing</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/personalisation-reduces-choice-in-supported-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest &#8216;great and good&#8217; theory is called &#8216;Personalisation&#8217; and as the name suggests it is intended to place more power and specifically choice in the hands of the person.  Personalisation is lauded and actively promoted by this government as a good thing and it even accuses local government of hindering the increased choice it &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=18&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The DWP paper on Supported Housing</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/the-dwp-paper-on-supported-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first and critical point is that this is not a consultation.  Under the title &#8216;Purpose of this consultation&#8217; on page 6 it says: - &#8220;The Government proposes to change Housing Benefit for those who live in supported housing within the social and voluntary sector. The consultation document seeks your views to inform the detailed &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=16&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The death of supported housing?</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/the-death-of-supported-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DWP has issued a consultation paper on how Housing Benefit is to be paid in future to exempt and supported accommodation, or ESA.  It proposes to replace the existing &#8216;exempt accommodation&#8217; HB regulations and payment process with flat-rate payments. The flat-rate payments all centre on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and for ease of reading &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=10&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SP &#8211; The failures come home to roost 1</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/sp-the-failures-come-home-to-roost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week Eric Pickles released a consultation paper that was widely reported as an attempt to prevent local authorities disproportionally cutting funding to vulnerable groups and third sector providers.  Why should Cornwall for example issue an across the board 40% cut when they have had an increase in SP funding was the claimed rationale. &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=4&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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