Government Should Raise Bedroom Tax Threshold

The government should concentrate its efforts to tackle under-occupation on households with two spare bedrooms and remove the exemption for pensioners, a housing association chief executive has argued. David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian & Churches Housing Association, argues under-occupation is a problem in social housing, but the government is taking the wrong approach to addressing the issue. He suggests the government should look at households that are under-occupying by two or more bedrooms and have been doing so for ‘significant periods of time’. He also says the policy should be applied to young and old equally. Read more on Inside Housing.