Property News · October 8, 2017

Hammond urged to scrap benefit cap as 1 million face homelessness


Shelter calls on chancellor to act in next month’s budget while council leaders attack failure to fix ‘broken’ housing marketThe chancellor, Philip Hammond, faces a chorus of calls to scrap the cap on housing benefit in his budget next month as a leading charity and local government leaders criticised government plans to fix the “broken” housing market as inadequate.In her party conference speech, Theresa May promised to dedicate her premiership to addressing the shortage of housing, saying the state must get “back in the business” of building subsidised rented homes for those not able to buy. She announced a £2bn injection of public funds which the government said could pay for an extra 25,000 homes for social rent by 2021. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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