138,547 ‘Benefit Households’ To Be Refused ‘Social Housing’ Per Year.

Housing associations and council landlords will no longer house many benefit households due to the overall benefit cap – around 138,547 families per year is the approximate and cautiously low number! To explain with those pesky fact called numbers:

·         Social landlords let 384,854 properties according to official figures for 2014/15.

·         English Housing Survey tells us 36% of social housing is 3 bed or larger properties.

·         No social landlord can afford to let a 3 bed property due to the overall benefit cap.

·         Therefore 36% of the yearly 384,854 properties are statistically likely to be 3 bed or larger properties yet will not be let to the benefit household.

·         Ergo, 138,547 of the poorest most vulnerable families, will not get social housing

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