The final government report into the removal of the spare
room subsidy, the policy known as the bedroom tax, was released on the last day
of parliamentary business in 2015. It proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what
everyone, from David Orr to Sajid Javid has known all along: By the criteria
against which the policy was drawn up, it is an unmitigated disaster. Let's put aside the Prime Minister's new,
shiny and bellicose statement of intent to literally destroy social housing by
tearing it down and replacing it with something else. Frankly there are no
policy details in the sink-estate clearance proposal, despite him setting out
his slightly rabid ideological stall. All we can really be sure of is that
either the physical regeneration will never come to pass, or it will leave in
its wake a lot of “unintended consequences” that will be widely publicised but
never heard. Read more on 24dash.
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