Senior housing figures have hit out at Grant Shapps for controversial comments about social housing tenants. The housing minister recently said: ‘For years the system for social housing has been associated with injustice – where rewards are reaped for those who know how to play the system best. Despite this terrible image a lazy consensus in social housing has ensured that, for an entire generation, no-one has bothered to do anything about it.’ Mr Shapps’ comments angered a number of chief executives, who said there was little evidence for the minister’s claim that there is injustice in the allocations system. Keith Exford, chief executive of 55,000-home Affinity Sutton, said: ‘To make sweeping generalizations about four million people is pretty uncalled for.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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