Search the Internet for "bedroom tax" and you will find mind bogglingly awful stories of families facing eviction and hardship because of it. Steve Hilditch from Redbrick thinks that the Tory coalition may finally be politically vulnerable over this issue since it will impact all MPs constituencies.
Families whose children have died won't be able to pay the rent since their housing benefit will be restricted. They are deemed to be "under-occupying" (it's too big for them) their properties following the deaths of their children.
The mother whose son has joined the Army and is due to go to Afghanistan was told by Tory MP to "get a lodger".
I hope it does.
UNISON members who work in housing management will be placed in an impossible position. They will be expected to evict tenants on housing benefit whose children have left home even if they have been exemplary residents and have lived there all their lives. Established communities will be shattered.
This and the other "reforms" will also cost Councils and Housing Associations millions of pounds in arrears and extra administration. Money better spent on building new homes and kick starting the economy?
Click on picture to bring up details and decide for yourself who has too many bedrooms.
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