The government’s proposed sell-off of thousands of
affordable homes could add more than £4bn to the housing benefit bill over the
next 30 years, Labour has claimed. The sum emerged from an opposition analysis
of the housing bill. The bill calls for the sale of low-rent housing, which the
housing charity Shelter has estimated will mean the loss of 19,000 council
homes and 66,500 housing association homes. “If you sell off genuinely affordable
homes and don’t replace them, then people on lower incomes will be forced into
more expensive private rented accommodation and this will mean higher housing
benefit spending to cover the cost,” said John Healey, shadow secretary of
state for housing. Read more on Welfare Weekly.
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