{"id":70184,"date":"2017-10-27T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-housing-benefit-climbdown-wont-help-private-renters-dawn-foster\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:05:52","slug":"government-housing-benefit-climbdown-wont-help-private-renters-dawn-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-housing-benefit-climbdown-wont-help-private-renters-dawn-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Government housing benefit climbdown won't help private renters | Dawn Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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A welcome U-turn on the housing benefit cap for supported housing still leaves private tenants...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ig0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86864,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-or-old-we-private-renters-are-being-locked-out-of-our-dream-homes-dawn-foster\/","url_meta":{"origin":70184,"position":0},"title":"Young or old, we private renters are being locked out of our dream homes | Dawn Foster","date":"May 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Millennials are not the only ones in overpriced housing. 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