Who Really Gets Government Subsidised Housing?

Here's a question with a slightly surprising answer. In the past decade 620,000 tenants have stopped receiving government subsidy, while another 841,000 and their landlords began to receive support: who are they? The first group is the one third of council tenants who do not qualify for housing benefit: in 2002, their rents were still subsidised by £300m, but by 2012 this subsidy had gone. The second group is the number of private tenants who now receive housing benefit, who have risen by 135% over the same period.  Read more on the Guardian website.