{"id":105367,"date":"2019-03-25T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-councils-pay-landlords-14m-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-people\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:04:23","slug":"london-councils-pay-landlords-14m-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-councils-pay-landlords-14m-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-people\/","title":{"rendered":"London councils pay landlords \u00a314m in 'incentives' to house homeless people"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlmost 6,000 payments made in 2018 to secure housing for vulnerable people Cash-strapped London councils are paying private landlords more than \u00a314m a year in \u201cincentives\u201d simply to persuade them to house homeless people, the Guardian can reveal.The sweetener payments of up to \u00a38,300 each were made to landlords more than 5,700 times in 2018 to house people who were either homeless or considered at risk of homelessness, freedom of information requests have revealed. The payouts are made in addition to rent and have been branded as ludicrous by housing campaigners and intolerable by councils. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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