One council offering payments to landlords to help Ukrainians find housing

Dorset Council were offering a similar incentive but it transpired it depended on who was giving you the information.

One member of staff suggested a one off payment of £1,000, another £2,000, a third suggested it was open to negotiation and subject to completing paperwork and a proposal put to the department spending the money but only if there were other interested parties and the landlord opted to helping the Ukranian family and then a fourth said it was only if the Ukranian family was being made homeless and were unable to stay with the hosts

Let's hope South Cambridgeshire are a little more transparent!

So many are looking after the 6 months of free cash dried up. It seems unlikely that many would meet the financial tests in this area of extremely expensive housing even with a council bribe

It's a huge laundromat, the Ukrainian government has been a CIA puppet for years, thoroughly undermining the will of the Ukrainian people, there are some THIRTY US funded bio weapons labs with some right on Russia's border (as admitted by Victoria Nuland), and western tax payers have been coerced into send millions up in smoke for no reason, those in charge don't give two hoots about those displaced and Zelensky's mrs managed to spend some fourty thousand euros in ONE SHOP in Paris a few months back; "No Taxation Without Representation" and I've been politically marooned for years, it's time we end this insanity.

Reply to the comment left by Nikki Palmer at 03/10/2023 - 12:24
I put a family into a property I own in Dorchester. I have it writing I will receive £3,000 at the end of 12 months. The property rents at £1,350 pcm. So, after 12 months it’s a great return and they are great tenants.

Reply to the comment left by Paul at 03/10/2023 - 18:28
That's great Paul.

I have helped several Ukranian families move into rental property, all long term if required, but the council have been of no help at all.

BCP Council paid the first month's rent and security deposit for one lady who was moving to Dorset Council area and even then I had to complete the same paperwork 3, if not 4 times before the money was released due to change in staff or annual leave.

You have been lucky and I hope they stick to the agreement

anyone got an actual named contact or email address at SCDC please?

Website lacking info....

Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 03/10/2023 - 12:37
What about incentives to help local families in England who can't find private rental or afford them shouldn't landlords be helping them

Reply to the comment left by Mandy Sellick at 04/10/2023 - 15:08
all well and good...but...

any tenant is a risk and in the main those on benefits are a higher risk. All unknown backgrounds and ususally no guarantor.

With a Ukranian in front of me and an existing 'home grown' tenant both claiming, then on paper they are the same.

Sorry to sound blunt here but they are not. The reality is that the govenment has put a financial incentive on taking in the Ukranian. (lots or reasons why). People say this is a LL ''incentive'... a LL may view it as simply additional financial insurance. If the tenancy goes wrong then its a bit of money that can be called on that you would not have had access to otherwise.

I think you see things different to the reality here. Its the GOVERNMENTS responsibiltiy to provide social housing. Private landlords give people a choice to rent private properties outside of the social options. We are a private business.

If the government wants us to help fill the gaps in housing provision they are unable to provide then any 'incentives' should be ultimately universal and no specific. Its the government and LA's who dictate how they priortise funding of tenants housing costs and needs according to their specific type/nationality/status/how they entered the UK. A LL has no control over this.

I love how this article refers to "Ukrainian guests", and yet the language used to describe anyone else from anywhere else is far less flowery. Bring the same energy I've seen on these posts about "immigration" and "housing pressure" and how this is a "small island". The hypocrisy is astounding.

Reply to the comment left by Lisa008 at 07/10/2023 - 08:42You will find this is exactly how the government describes them. Ukranian guests. The UK offered them sanctuary. They retain their own citizenship and given temporary right to remain. It is 'expected' they will want and will return (yeah right!)
Afghans are referred to as 'Afghan citizens who are eligible for relocation to the UK under the ARAP scheme'. Afforded different rights and benefits and treated the same as British citizens. (they will of course stay on a perm basis and then have even more financial assistance to bring over extended family.)
One rule for one, one rule for another with the total burden of this (plus the existing home grown) all on the existing UK taxpayer.
Hypocracy starts at the top - those below see and feel the actual implications. The reality is clear - its not colour based but general resentment boiling over regarding numbers coming in, when the state is in a downward spiral and unable to cope with its own UK home demand for care, schooling, housing etc...