I did not have space in my article for The Independent on Sunday today, on why welfare reform may be the issue that breaks the coalition government, to go into much detail. (Actually I was having too much fun being silly about things being “unavoidable”.) So my comments on housing benefit might have been a little cryptic:
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And he concludes:
Stephen Gibbons and Alan Manning looked at the effects of restrictions on HB in the mid-90s. They found that – depending on how the statistics are cut – between half and all of the cut in HB fell upon landlords, who had to cut their rent.
I don’t say this to defend Osborne’s move … [But] the belief that a £1 cut in HB is a £1 loss to poor tenants might well be wrong. And I happen to think (sometimes,
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I would urge her,
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The Chancellor also made a modest but necessary start on cutting housing benefit,
http://www.psychics4ucafe.com/user/b...-article11548/, one of the most dysfunctional parts of the welfare state that does most to trap people in worklessness. Despite the modesty of the cuts, the Budget was attacked by people who should know better for increasing homelessness,
http://www.be-######.net/meet/events_view.php?eid=31585, when its main effect will be to cut the rental income of landlords.
Lubi166 in the comments asked for “more information please”. I would not refer her to my good colleague Sean O’Grady, The Independent’s economics editor, who on this occasion is mistaken.