[joeysteele]

Personally,I see absolutely no point a all in building houses/flats with only one bedroom, it leaves no room for growth of a family at all.
There are now very few dwellings for those affected by the bedroom tax to move to,yet they still have to pay the thing, even if they are willing to move but the local Authority has no smaller dwelling to move to.

It should have only ever applied, had I ever thought it something that needed doing, to only 3 bedroomed houses,with the 3rd bedroom if not used paid for but it should never have applied to only 2 bedroomed houses/flats.


However it must be costing loads to implement it, for the local authorities to have to keep chasing rent arrears,for the cases taken to court to get eviction orders, which are then suspended by the Court and small repayments ordered off the arrears on arrears.
Then having to put in the discretionary payments too to subsidise some people affected by the tax.

What an administrative nightmare it must have turned out to be and it cannot be saving much, if anything at all.
Far better to cut the losses now and get rid of it, just get more dwellings built and get on with that quicker too.
A bonkers policy,badly planned and badly implemented.