Bedroom Tax – huge INTER and INTRA regional impacts

Originally posted on SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites):
When anyone asserts that the bedroom tax does this or does that they are talking through their backsides!!

No MP or ANY political party
No social landlord wherever they are based
No Chief Executive of any social landlord
No housing lobby such as CIH or NHF
No journalist whether in the Guardian, Telegraph or Inside Housing
No tenant
No housing consultant / campaigner / activist / blogger (ahem!!)
Not even the most reputable research organisation or think tank such as JRF et al…

…can say definitively that the bedroom tax impacts are X Y or Z and this is due to the massive and hugely different impacts from London to the North West (INTER regionally) and the massively different impacts within regions (INTRA regionally) such as this simple table of FACT reveals.

The table is a simple one I devised in ten minutes from yesterdays official release of the Housing Benefit…
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 14, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs