Housing Follow

Around two million people in over 650,000 households were hit by the Tories’ tax on social housing tenants’ spare bedrooms last week. Fewer than 1 percent of them have moved into smaller properties. 

More and more councils are coming out to say that they oppose the bedroom tax. 

Thousands of people took to the streets today, Saturday—just days before the bedroom tax hits social housing tenants that have what the Tories call a “spare room”.

The government’s attack on benefits could see thousands of people lose their homes. One attack in particular, popularly known as the "bedroom tax", is set to push almost 100,000 social housing tenants into arrears on their rent from this April.

In his first autumn statement, on 29 November 2010, George Osborne, then aged 39, announced the detail of the economic measures that would begin to polarise Britain. Housing benefit for people just five years younger than him would no longer be paid if they lived alone. That was just one of dozens of vindictive polices aimed at the poor, the young and everyone else who had less power.

by Judge Red, Dave Renton In every city in Britain, this Christmas will see more people sleeping rough than at any time since the 1980s. Officially, street homelessness is increasing by just under 10 percent. That figure is almost certainly an underestimate.

As the new term begins, private housing bosses are licking their lips at the prospect of cashing in on students.

Tory housing minister Grant Shapps has backed plans to sell off social housing in "expensive areas".

The number of people in Britain without a home has rocketed by 25 percent in the past three years, new research has found.

Campaigners protested outside Downing Street on Wednesday against housing benefit cuts that threaten to make thousands of young people homeless.

Tenants and housing campaigners protested against Tory welfare reform minister Lord Freud on Wednesday of last week.

Tenants and workers in Southwark, south London, attended a public meeting last Saturday about the housing crisis.