Cash-strapped London councils are paying private
landlords more than £14m a year in “incentives” simply to persuade them to
house homeless people. The sweetener payments of up to £8,300 each were made to
landlords more than 5,700 times in 2018 to house people who were either
homeless or considered at risk of homelessness, freedom of information requests
have revealed. The payouts are made in addition to rent and have been branded
as ludicrous by housing campaigners and intolerable by councils. The fall in
social housebuilding and a widening gap between housing benefit and market
rents appear to be fuelling the payments. Read more on the Guardian website.
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Wajid Khan tells House of Lords remediation work is yet to start on half of
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