Council under Attack over Bedroom Tax Claims

A Labour councillor has written to Westminster City Council's cabinet member for housing and property to complain that of over 500 tenants due to be hit by the bedroom tax, only eight have so far been downsized to a smaller property. Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg has told Cllr Jonathan Glanz "Throughout this sorry saga you have steadfastly maintained that the bedroom tax will release hundreds of under occupied homes for those in housing need. Now it is proving that the opposite is true and the bedroom tax will release a minuscule number of homes for those in need and, instead, will take money away from the poorest residents in Westminster." Read more on 24dash.