Housing: Underoccupancy Charge Debate
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Lord Campbell-Savours
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(10 years, 9 months ago)
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Lord Freud
One of the fundamental objectives of providing discretionary housing payments is to make sure that where there are significant adaptations in homes for disabled people there will be discretionary housing payments for those people.
Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Has the Minister ever stopped to consider the personal distress caused to families who are forced to move because they cannot afford higher rents?
Lord Freud
My Lords, we naturally look at these policies with a view to their impact. At a time of very scarce housing, we are under huge pressure to find appropriate homes for people. Everyone takes decisions to move to reflect their circumstances. It is no different in the social sector than elsewhere.