A good idea on social housing

Lee Rowley, over on ConHome, highlights one very important figure and a crucial fact. There are 75,000 households waiting for social housing who are living in temporary accommodation. Currently, once you receive a council home it is yours for life at a subsidized level, and in some cases can be passed on. This is a problem that needs addressing. Currently, social housing exists not simply to support those most vulnerable in society but those who no longer need the help. 260,000 social housing household contain at least one member with an income over the UK median. Clearly this detracts from our ability to help the poorest in society. Once again a large state benefits those clustered around the middle income deciles and not those at the bottom. New tenancies should not be based on tenancy for life but should be up for renegotiation dependant on means. People should pay what they can: for the poorest that means nothing. Lee Jasper should not have been paying just £90 per week for his victorian Clapham house. Current tenants contracts must be honoured but future contracts must be made on a need basis. The only logic against this is that we wish to ever expand the number of people in social housing. I don't think any major political party would opennly state this as its aim. So let the reform begin.