{"id":55157,"date":"2014-01-11T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-tycoon-fergus-wilson-hits-back-after-criticism-of-mass-evictions\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:45:04","slug":"property-tycoon-fergus-wilson-hits-back-after-criticism-of-mass-evictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-tycoon-fergus-wilson-hits-back-after-criticism-of-mass-evictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Property tycoon Fergus Wilson hits back after criticism of mass evictions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nControversial landlord spells out why his housing benefit tenants had to go \u2013 and northerners must get on their bikes Fergus Wilson’s statement: ‘The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’Fergus Wilson, the buy-to-let baron with nearly 1,000 homes who has become the most controversial landlord in Britain in a generation, reckons he is out of pocket by \u00a3800,000 because housing benefit claimants have failed to pay the rent.Wilson and his wife, Judith, have provoked fury since he told the Guardian earlier this week that he had sent eviction notices to 200 tenants who were on welfare. In the future, he said, he would not accept applications from people claiming housing benefit (HB), preferring migrants from eastern Europe instead.Wilson further inflamed public opinion after telling Channel 4 News “I feel sorry for battered wives who have come to us because we are very much consigning them to go back to their husbands to be beaten up again \u2013 but the situation is it cannot go on.” Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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