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“A family applying for a home could be offered "new opportunities linked to employment and training."
She said: "Social housing will always have a strong role in supporting the most vulnerable - the elderly, those with disabilities. But there are also many who are currently unemployed who could find work with the right training and support."
Ms Flint said that a family applying for a home could be offered "new opportunities linked to employment and training."
She suggested that a "voluntary contract" would set out the opportunities on offer, "underscoring the commitment of the tenants to self-improvement."
A spokesman from Ms Flint's Department of Communities and Local Government would not confirm whether this meant that tenants who then broke their contracts would face eviction. "The minister made it quite clear she is starting a debate, and nothing is definite at the moment," he said.
DEPRIVATION
Ms Flint said Labour wanted to break the link between social housing and long-term unemployment. She described "concentrations of deprivation and disadvantage - with long-term unemployment and some families without jobs for generations." A report commissioned last year by her department suggested that half of all households paid for by benefits were without work, and many of these are under 25. New statistics also reveal that the number of unemployed council tenants has risen by 20% to 55% since 1981.
WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED WOULD DESTROY FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AND ADD TO THE THOUSANDS WHO ARE ALREADY HOMELESS
It is understood that if the new contracts do become a reality, they would apply to new tenants at first - but if successful they could be extended to existing tenants. Ms Flint's proposals were attacked by her political opponents as unworkable, and by others as unfair.
Conservative housing spokesman Grant Shapps said Ms Flint was trying to "grab the headlines" with proposals that could not be legally enforced. "Ministers and local councils have a statutory duty to house homeless families with children and so they can't boot them out of their houses without then providing alternative accommodation," he said.
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