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Een opmerkelijk bericht van Inside Housing. Nieuwe huurders worden gevraagd om een huishouden ambitie plan te ondertekenen. In dat plan staat o.a. op welke wijze zij een bijdrage willen leveren aan de gemeenschap, zoeken naar een baan e.d. Wil een huishouden dat niet doen, het geldt voor een 7 jaars huurcontract, dan worden ze verzocht naar een andere corporatie te gaan voor woning. 
Ik zou graag commentaar ontvangen op dit bericht.

groet,

Rene van de Lustgraaf

Tenants asked to sign ‘ambition plans’
25 April 2013 | By Tom Lloyd
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A south west housing association is requiring new tenants to sign up to a plan to improve their lifestyle, which will be linked to their future access to housing.
Yarlington Housing Group is asking new tenants to commit to a ‘household ambition plan’ when they are issued with its standard seven-year fixed term tenancy. Progress against the plan will be considered when the tenancy is reviewed.
The plans will be created individually for each household based on the ‘ambitions and aspirations’ of the family. Yarlington executive director Phyllida Culpin said criteria could include ‘gaining employment, adopting a healthy lifestyle, getting a qualification or contributing to their local community’.
‘It’s at their own level, but we are looking for them to commit to it, and see it through,’ she said.
The 9,000-home landlord’s initiative is being launched today at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s south west conference.
In a statement Yarlington said it ‘understands that some people may feel uncomfortable about committing to a plan’.
‘If they decide that they do not want to take advantage of this opportunity, they will be advised to bid for homes offered by other housing providers who do not have a similar scheme,’ it states.
Ms Culpin said: ‘Our approach to getting a positive involvement from new tenants is crucial to the success of our company aim to build communities. These communities consist of people from all walks of life across all abilities. We expect everyone entering this with us to do the very best that they are able.’
A spokesperson for the group said they believe this is the first such agreement to be put in place by a housing association, but expect other providers to follow the example. She added that pilot versions of the initiative have been well received by tenants, and the full scheme will be active from today.
Readers' comments (6)
·         Paul Jones | 25/04/2013 7:58 am
Is it really landlords' business to start telling tenants who to be?
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·         Joe Halewood
Joe Halewood | 25/04/2013 8:29 am
Why not simply brand the foreheads of tenants instead? Those aspirant tenants who give us this subsidy could then receive an 'affordable' laser removal treatment service when they do and receive a free bucket of rotten tomatoes to throw at their replacements in the stocks on the high street
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·         michael barratt | 25/04/2013 8:34 am
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
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·         Steve McCann | 25/04/2013 8:42 am
This is outrageous. How, I wonder, would the rest of us feel about having our housing linked to something such as this? Housing associations exist to meet housing need not to instruct people how to live their lives. We are clearly returning to older styles of housing management where housing inspectors judged people on how they lived before allocating them any housing.

This mob should be ashamed.
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·         Roof' Less | 25/04/2013 9:01 am
In my dictionary, the word 'responsibility' appears before the word 'rights'. I don't consider it unreasonable to ask those who live off the back of others efforts to think about becoming self-C
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·         David Hall-Davies | 25/04/2013 9:05 am
Is this just another case of those who HAVE holding those who HAVE NOT to ransom by deciding what and when they can have, only if they jump up and down on demand. Ummmm I think this is called an AUTOCRACY, thankfully we have robust human rights legislation.
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