Reblogged from speye:
Asylum seekers are entitled to a bedroom measuring at least 70 square feet
yet the social tenant is being denied this by the government who think that
tenants deserve just 15.2 square feet as the U6/2013 HB circular states.
Boy I wish I worked for the Daily Mail!! An asylum seeker is entitled to 4.6
times that of a British national when it comes to bedroom size.
15 years or so ago the government decided, correctly, to disperse asylum
seekers across the country as they tended to settle in or around Dover and
London. It was unfair on councils there to shoulder the costs and fair to
disperse asylum seekers so all councils shared the costs.
I headed up the programme for a council in Greater Manchester and the
government requirements for properties was that a bedroom had to be a
minimum of 70 square feet and this was contained as one of the contract terms
set down by the government.
If is wasn’t at least 70 square feet
then it wasn’t a bedroom.
Note well this applied to all properties and so was not just a HMO condition,
it applied to a sole family in a property too.
Yet this government in a knee jerk reaction to the Fife bedroom tax appeal
successes issues the HB circular U6/2013 which
says literally that a bedroom can be as small as 15.2 square feet – its a
bedroom if you can fit a single bed in it.
So an asylum seeker is allowed a bedroom size that is 4.6 times greater than
a British tenant according to this government. Oh yes this same government says
the bedroom tax is fair!
Do I need to comment any further on this?
