The Building and Social Housing Foundation has produced an excellent paper looking at the possible effects of the government's planned changes to housing benefit.
Among noteworthy comments the paper refers to the danger of creating Parisian-style banlieues - areas of deprivation on the outskirts of city while the city centre has become exclusively for the well-off.
It says: "The potential for the total exclusion of the poor from large areas is clearly present in the measures announced in the budget."
It is probably very easy to damn the government as the same old Tories looking to slash and burn, but the report also points out that the "UK's system of providing support with housing costs warrants significant attention, both to ensure that it is meeting housing need and that the long-term cost is managed."
However it does say that linking worklessness and cuts in housing benefits "risks an increase in the incidence of homelessness presentations, creating a greater impact on public expenditure in the medium term."
Click here to read the report.
Among noteworthy comments the paper refers to the danger of creating Parisian-style banlieues - areas of deprivation on the outskirts of city while the city centre has become exclusively for the well-off.
It says: "The potential for the total exclusion of the poor from large areas is clearly present in the measures announced in the budget."
It is probably very easy to damn the government as the same old Tories looking to slash and burn, but the report also points out that the "UK's system of providing support with housing costs warrants significant attention, both to ensure that it is meeting housing need and that the long-term cost is managed."
However it does say that linking worklessness and cuts in housing benefits "risks an increase in the incidence of homelessness presentations, creating a greater impact on public expenditure in the medium term."
Click here to read the report.
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