Response: Pay to Stay consultation
By: Deborah Garvie
Published: September 2012
Response: Pay to Stay consultation
However, an initial analysis of the figures suggests that the policy would be of limited value in addressing housing need. In our view, the real solution is to provide more genuinely affordable housing, rather than creating an additional bureaucratic burden for social landlords to charge higher rents to the tiny proportion of social renters who have worked hard and done well.