{"id":13433,"date":"2017-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/kalla-eftir-endurskodun-a-forsendum-husnaedisstudnings\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:00:31","slug":"call-for-a-review-of-the-grounds-for-housing-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/kalla-eftir-endurskodun-a-forsendum-husnaedisstudnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for a review of the criteria for housing support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On<br \/>\nAt a meeting of the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur town council on Wednesday, a resolution was passed in which the town council criticises<br \/>\nnew legislation on housing support and calls on the Althingi to review<br \/>\nbasic amounts and other conditions of this support. A reduction by a third has<br \/>\nto be among those who receive special housing support in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and wishes<br \/>\nthe town council has called for the reasons for that decrease to be examined and for action to be taken<br \/>\nto ensure that the Housing Support Act achieves its purpose. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201eThe Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Town Council shares concerns<br \/>\nThe Family Board on the development of specific housing support following changes to the law<br \/>\nRegarding the last New Year's Eve. Based on the available data on the number of<br \/>\nFor those receiving special housing support in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, the new legislation does not appear to apply.<br \/>\nare achieving their purpose. Between years, the number of recipients of special<br \/>\nHousing support in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has been cut by a third following a change in the law.\u201c<br \/>\nThe resolution states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eAt the same time, the town council urges the Althingi to take action.<br \/>\nReview of basic housing benefit amounts during the processing of the 2018 budget<br \/>\nas provided for in the law, where the impact of new conditions on will be specifically examined<br \/>\nthe number of those who are entitled to this support and assess whether that development<br \/>\nis consistent with the purpose of the Act to reduce the housing costs of less well-off tenants<br \/>\nregarding the rental of residential property.\u201c<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1 fundi b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rnar Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u00e1 mi\u00f0vikudag var sam\u00feykkt \u00e1lyktun&nbsp;\u00fear sem b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rnin gagnr\u00fdnir n\u00fdja l\u00f6ggj\u00f6f um h\u00fasn\u00e6\u00f0isstu\u00f0ning og skorar \u00e1 Al\u00feingi a\u00f0 endursko\u00f0a grunnfj\u00e1rh\u00e6\u00f0ir og \u00f6nnur skilyr\u00f0i \u00feessa stu\u00f0nings.&nbsp;\u00deri\u00f0jungs f\u00e6kkun hefur or\u00f0i\u00f0 \u00ed h\u00f3pi \u00feeirra sem f\u00e1 s\u00e9rstakan h\u00fasn\u00e6\u00f0isstu\u00f0ning \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i og \u00f3skar b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rnin eftir \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 \u00e1st\u00e6\u00f0ur \u00feeirrar f\u00e6kkunar s\u00e9u r\u00fdndar og gengi\u00f0 \u00far skugga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13433"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}