Government is proposing to increase the robbery from tenants rents next year (2009-10) by another £248 million!
The Treasury plans to take £1.83 billion from tenants rents (difference between total rents and total allowances).
Allowances to local authorities will remain massively underfunded whilst rents are rising faster than inflation
(6.2% in 2009/10 year and 6.1% 2010/11).
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has commissioned new research (August 2008) from the Building Research Establishment and Housing Quality Network into the level that
Management & Maintenance Allowance (M&M) and Major Repairs Allowance (MRA) provided to local authorities need to be.
The research has been done but the reports still have not been published even though they we were promised they would be available (October 2008)
to inform the government's 'Review of Council Housing Finance'.
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See what your authority should be receiving if government funded allowances at level of need (based on existing research).
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Select your authority from the list below to see details of the existing Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and the
difference that government agreeing to fully fund allowances would make (see assumptions used).
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