Private landlords get £9.3bn in housing benefit from taxpayer, thanks to Tory laws
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The NHF said that if all those housed in the private rented sector lived in affordable housing, taxpayers would save £1.5bn a year [Image: Gareth Fuller/PA].
Taxpayers handed over £9.3bn in housing benefit to Britain’s private landlords last year, nearly double the amount paid 10 years ago, according to a new report.
The number of households receiving housing benefit to pay rent to private landlords has risen 42% since 2008, the National Housing Federation, which represents the non-profit housing sector, has found.
The NHF calculated that if all those housed in the private rented sector lived in affordable housing, taxpayers would save £1.5bn a year. David Orr, the federation’s chief executive, said: “It is madness to spend £9bn of taxpayers’ money lining the pockets of private landlords, rather than investing in affordable homes.”
Source: Private landlords get £9.3bn in housing benefit from taxpayer, says report | Politics | The Guardian
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The Tories chip away at social housing at every opportunity, it’s PFI by the back door for decades, The platitudes of we will / are doing ring hollow, we all know many Tory MP’s who have jumped on this self created bandwagon to the detriment of the disadvantaged. While they sleep soundly in their beds, many can not. If hell exists, they are in for a roasting.
Worship at the altar of market forces and this is what you get when supply is choked off and the government of the day won’t intervene meaningfully.
http://landlord-mps.co.uk/
There were 126 MPs who declared that they received rental income from property, according to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests before parliament dissolved.
That made up 19.38% of the house.
All data was collected as-is on 13th April 2015 using a custom built web crawler.
With thanks to TheyWorkForYou for providing MP party and constituency data.
And despite the housing benefit bill going up, the government still maintain that bedroom tax has saved money.