Westminster Council has been attacked by Labour councillors for "misleading" the Government in its bid to set higher rents for medium and high-earning council tenants. The council claims that more than 2,200 social housing households in the borough earn over £50,000. Westminster has used the figures to push for flexibility in council rent setting, to allow it to charge medium and high-earning tenants more. The extra cash gained from higher rents, it says, would go to building or acquiring new homes and keeping rents low for the truly vulnerable, such as pensioners. However, figures released by the council's chief executive following a request from the Labour group, show that the majority of the 2,200 tenants earning over £50,000 a year were housing association tenant households. Councils have no part in setting housing association rents, however. Read more on 24dash.
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