Council’s ‘rape clause’ blunder leaves family with disabled child homeless
This is what happens when you give too little cash to the poor – and too much power to bureaucrats. …
Category Archives: Housing
‘Help to Buy’ hijacked by the rich – or do Tories really think £100,000 earners are struggling?
Tories really have strange priorities, don’t they? They seem to think people earning more than 80,000 a year – those …
Faced with five more years of Tory persecution, disabled people are losing hope
“Basically now we are all buggered. “No hope left for me as I’m disabled and they’ve messed me about so …
Family can’t afford one-bedroom flat despite full-time work in Tory Britain. Time for a change
The Conservatives keep telling us work is the way out of poverty, but in the run-up to the election, let’s …
Was this disabled couple made homeless by a council because they have a pet dog?
This tells you everything about the direction of travel in Tory Britain. Ian and Frances Cooper, from Aylsham, have been …
Council spending on accommodation for homeless families is now EIGHT TIMES more than 10 years ago
Do you remember the Tory housing revolution back in the 1980s? I do. Margaret Thatcher told us she wanted the …
Unaffordable rents – arranged by Tories – are pushing low-income families towards homelessness
Nine out of every 10 homes for rent are too expensive for families on housing benefit or the equivalent, Local …
Tory wage and benefit cuts mean millions are struggling to pay essential bills
Nearly 2.2 million people in the UK are struggling to pay council tax, rent and utility bills because they aren’t …
READ: Universal Credit and its direct causal links to longer NHS waits, higher council tax and more rough sleepers … – Speye Joe
This is revealing – and shocking. If you haven’t read Speye Joe before, read this now: From April 2012 to …
Tory social housing crisis as number of homeless households hits 12-year high
Remember when the Conservatives said they would halve homelessness by 2022, and end it altogether by 2027? I bet the …