Housing Benefit Entitlement Debate
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Anne Begg
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(11 years, 4 months ago)
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Phil Wilson
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will come on to foster carers in a little while.
The lack of mobility in this sector—between two-bedroom properties and one-bedroom properties, for example—is a product not of tenants needlessly under-occupying larger homes, but of the logjam created by a national shortage of affordable homes, particularly two and one-bedroom properties.
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South) (Lab)
I spoke to the Glasgow Housing Association last week, which is the largest provider of social housing anywhere in the UK. It reckons that the shortfall that it will face could mean that 700 houses that it would have built each year will now not be built. So, rather than helping with the housing shortage, the proposal is making things worse.