More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half of the country's
total annual housing benefit bill was invested in new stock, the GMB Congress
in Plymouth has
been told. A report presented to the
Congress showed that much of £411 billion spent on housing benefit over the
last 30 years has been funnelled to private landlords due to the shortage of
social housing. It called for a
"fundamental break" in housing policy and for the billions spent
subsidising private landlords to be switched to building new social homes. Read more on 24dash.
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