Three-bedroom homes are being condemned to demolition by
housing associations because the coalition's bedroom tax has made them too
expensive for tenants to live in. Despite a national property shortage,
providers of affordable homes are unable to find people who can meet the cost
of living in a home with an extra bedroom and are, in some cases, planning
demolitions. In Liverpool, one housing provider, Magenta Living, has admitted
that "with changes to welfare benefits there is very little prospect of
letting upper three-bedroom maisonettes in the current climate". Magenta
says one such block of flats will be "emptied with a view to subsequent
demolition" because of the inability to let them out, sell them or keep up
with the costs of keeping them unlived in. Read more on the Observer website.
