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Tag Archives: Housing Benefit
Tory Mayor considering 11% increase for council rents
CROYDON IN CRISIS: There’s no mention of it on the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the full council. But official council reports show that the borough’s Housing Revenue Account has debts of £322.5m. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES It is a … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Council rents, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing Benefit, Housing Revenue Account, HRA, Labour, Liz Truss, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Thick Lizzy Truss, Tony Newman, Tory
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I Daniel Blake: a story being played out daily around Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Over the weekend, I Daniel Blake, the heart-rending story of our broken benefits system, was named British film of the year at the BAFTAs. And here at Inside Croydon Towers, we received this account from a Croydon mother … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Health, Housing
Tagged Housing Benefit, welfare benefits
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Croydon MP calls for halt to agents’ “scandalously high” fees
A scheme to license letting agents and landlords in Croydon to help protect thousands of private tenants could be a key proposal from Labour ahead of the 2014 Town Hall elections. With the national housing crisis reaching acute levels in … Continue reading
Our council’s “solution” for the economy: tax the unemployed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Local trades unionist ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, sees a worryingly spiteful trend in social policy in the borough The campaign against welfare is the centrepiece of the coalition government’s policy agenda. It started with the Chancellor George Osborne, … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Woodside
Tagged Britain, Council Tax, David Cameron, George Osborne, Housing Benefit, Labour, London, Pension Credit
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Housing benefit caps could hurt outer London
It was Newton, wasn’t it, who posited that every action has a reaction? It wouldn’t take an Einstein to work out, though, that if you take away housing benefit from people living in an “expensive” area of a city, that … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London
Tagged Housing Benefit, London, Shirley Porter, Tory, Welfare
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