[Kizzy]

This bedroom tax as far as I am aware is applicable only to social housing stock, the private renters have a benefits cap to reduce housing benefits payments.
This has caused its own problems such as the fragmetation of whole communities and family units.
It seems that social cohesion has been put on a back burner for the time being....

Although that is a different issue, I feel that this will impact on the council housing lists further north as those who due to the cap are forced from their private rented properties in london and surrounding areas.

One point the government could make that would help everyone concerned would be to target underperforming local councils...
Those who do not adequately maintain their housing stock, here in leeds and i'm sure there are in towns and cities up and down the country 1000's of council properties becoming derelict.
Why is this allowed to happen?

At one time this was given media attention and now it all appears to have fizzled out, and who are left to make all the sacrifices?...The tenants and residents of these neglected boroughs.
In my local area the maintainance of council housing and other services has been outsourced, unfortunately they have mismanaged the budget from central government and therefore any improvement works to be done to maintain housing stock are not being carried out.
It is just another example of central government being so out of touch with the rest of the country... i'm not sure they even know if anywhere outside the capital exists!

This is the programme which first made me aware that the problem was not localised, but countrywide.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...4-preview.html