Let’s Call Time on the ‘Nasty Tax’

The bedroom tax is 6 months old today.  That's 6 months of misery imposed on families all over the country.  The result?  Arrears are rising quickly, because people genuinely don't have the money to cover the cost.  Some people are finding ways to move, often to the private sector at a greater cost in housing benefit.  Properties specially adapted around the needs of an individual are having the adaptations ripped out because that family has moved to an inappropriate, but smaller, home, which is now being specially adapted at significant cost.  And all this from a government that wants to be seen as economically competent and rational. Some of the ironies are astonishing.  A policy allegedly designed to make best use of the housing stock leading to huge growth in empty 3 bed homes in some parts of the country, not because no one needs them but because no one can now afford them. Read more on the NHF website.