Government cutting housing benefit ,for under occupancy ,so people will have to?

WE ARE IMMIGRANTS WITH SEVEN CHILDREN.WE LIVE IN A BIG HOUSE. THE RENT IS PAID BY SOCIAL.WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER FOUR CHILDREN TO LIVE IN A HOUSE THIS SIZE. FAIR ENOUGH. WE WOULD GET A LOT MORE BENEFITS.BUT IF MY WIFE HAD A BABY EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. IT WOULD TAKE SIX YEARS TO HAVE ENOUGH CHILDREN FOR THE HOUSE WE HAVE. I DOUBT IF THEY COULD FIND A HOUSE TO SUIT US.THIS SCHEME FOR SMALLER HOUSEING WOULD NOT REDUCE BENEFITS, IN MY CASE IT WOULD INCREASE MY BENEFITS. FOR WE ARE LIVING VERY COMFORTABLE ON WHAT WE ARE GETTING NOW.

ALLAH AKBAR IMSHALLA

We have been told ours will be reduced to £280 a month for two people, even finding a one bedroomed flat in my area for this price is just about impossible, unless it is a studio apartment or more accurately a bedsit This is even less than the local council and housing associations charge for a one bedroomed flat or house, which vary from around £300 - £360 a month.

The majority of those unemployed and on Social benefits will have to subsidise their rent out of the money allocated for living expenses, get into more debt and possibly lose their homes. It is just another way of reducing benefits, something the Conservatives are and always were expert at.

I became aware of this issue from a friend in this situation - he was in the place he was put and was actually penalised for even allowing a friend to stay for a short while.

It isn't as cut and dried as it might appear - there are areas you would not want to be moved to for a great many reasons. Anyway he has already moved from the two bedroom place he lived in to another one bedroom place that became available. It appears to be the correct move but isn't as easy as it would appear in the first instance due to the available housing stock.

I would say that it is a direction to take but matching need with availability isn't the straightforward thing it would seem. Councils have to at least try to be fair to all concerned.

It is hard. Unfortunately there is a big economic decline in the country and the government are looking to make cuts everywhere. It would be good to think that the rich are being striped harder than the poor but we all have our doubts. It may be a few years before we get back to normal.

There is a move to make it difficult for people with social needs to come into our country but whilst we are together with Europe we have to allow other Europeans in freely and this is the majority of foreigners coming in.

There may be yet another u-turn or watering down on this one, the National Housing Federation has been speaking out against it, they're the umbrella organisation for housing associations, the government doesn't mind upsetting councils but it won't be wanting to upset housing associations because they're useful to governments for taking social housing our of local authority control, a policy started by the previous government and even more attractive to the present one who seem to be doing all they can to undermine council housing.

If human beings can in simple terms click their arms and say "i'm skint, provide me a house" this is an unfair burden on people who ought to pay their very own loan/lease plus somebody else's on good. especially while, as is the case the place I stay, the permamently unemployed are given bright Barratt residences mutually as workers finally end up in terrible bedsits with woodchip wallpaper

They want the rooms to let to more immigrants from Eastern Europe, so they pick on single people to make way for them all.