Bedroom Tax minister Lord Freud has finally admitted
there are not enough one-bed homes for victims of the hated levy. But he
brazenly tried to shift responsibility for the logjam to local authorities as he
tried to defend the tax in the House of Lords.
Lord Freud told peers: “Over the past decade the social rented sector
has built virtually no single bedrooms. We need to make sure we are building
the type of accommodation people in this country actually need.” And he
insisted that in 10 years only 30,000 one-bed social homes were built against
280,000 in the private sector. But demand for one-bedroom homes is only now
massively outstripping supply because of the hated tax. Read more on the Daily
Mirror website.
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