Property News · October 27, 2017

Government housing benefit climbdown won't help private renters | Dawn Foster


A welcome U-turn on the housing benefit cap for supported housing still leaves private tenants to face crippling rents and being turfed out on the streets Being a Conservative MP must be one of the most thankless, if well-remunerated, jobs currently going in Britain. You spend years working on policy, hammer it into the manifesto, sometimes force it through parliament, then, inevitably, junk it in a cataclysmically embarrassing U-turn. Related: Theresa May performs major U-turn on plans to cap housing benefit Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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