‘Wicked bedroom tax’: Housing benefit claimants punished for spare bedrooms from today
Housing benefit claimants are to begin receiving cuts to their payouts from today, as the coalition implements its “wicked bedroom tax”.
Cameron’s immigration speech: Just the policy
David Cameron joins the arms race between party leaders on trying to look tough on immigration today, but strip out the rhetoric and what are we left with?
Social housing sell-off ‘would cleanse posh neighbourhoods’
Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.
Housing in the UK ‘unaffordable’
The UK property market is so dysfunctional, it forces one in six families to spend over 40% of their income on rent or mortgages, research reveals.
Party politics overshadows social cleansing row
An East End council has been accused of “social cleansing” after seeking to find housing for its poorest residents in Stoke-on-Trent.
PM resurrects right-to-buy
Social tenants will be able to benefit from a £75,000 discount when they buy their properties under the government’s revived right-to-buy scheme.
Cameron wrong on private rents, survey suggests
A survey of more than 200 councils has revealed no evidence to support Mr Cameron’s claim to parliament that private rents were falling.
Minister mocked after on-air ‘meltdown’
Grant Shapps was subject to a torrent of online mockery this morning, after he spent half his interview on the Today programme bickering with the host.
Cameron and Clegg: We’ll have diggers on site by July
David Cameron and Nick Clegg will launch their much-vaunted house building scheme with a July timetable for work to start on thousands of new buildings.
Plan for growth: Cameron brings back ‘right to buy’
David Cameron tried to address criticism of his economic policy this morning by bringing back Margaret Thatcher’s ‘right to buy scheme’.
