Government Hiding Behind ‘Meaningless’ Definitions Of Affordable Housing

Government is hiding behind “frankly meaningless” definitions of affordable housing and inflated housebuilding stats to avoid the hard realities of the housing crisis, the Commons has heard. Members debating the future for the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) heard Labour’s Liam Byrne say of his Birmingham constituency: “I am not prepared to live in a city where we have cranes in the sky, but homeless people dying in the doorways – we need an emergency response to this moral emergency.” During the debate, DWP minister Will Quince surprised some in saying discretionary housing payments were “not necessarily” temporary. Read more on 24housing.

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