Two of the government’s highest priority policies related
to housing are suffering most from spending cuts: housing welfare support and
planning and development. Over the five years of this parliament, spending by
local authorities on housing-related services will have fallen in real terms by
a third. This doesn’t include council housing, which is now self-financing. But
the remaining housing services have seen a far bigger cut than applies to
council spending overall. Excluding housing benefit payments, English councils
will spend 16% less in real terms in 2014/15 than they did in 2010/11, but
housing’s cut is more than twice that, at 34%. Read more on the Guardian
website.
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