Tag: housing

Home truths for Shapps over Army housing blunder

THE wheels are falling off at the Ministry of Defence under the inspired leadership of Grant Shapps, the Army wives dealing the latest blow. Thanks to their protests, the plan to change the way Army accommodation is allocated has been shelved. The hapless Secretary of State should have thought twice before messing with them. Neither Mr Shapps nor those […]

Migrant rent deals reveal the hollowness of Gove’s housing pledges

THE Telegraph reports that despite the severe housing shortage the Home Office is offering landlords five-year guaranteed full-rent deals for properties in which to house asylum seekers. It has amassed a stock of 16,000 properties in the hope of cutting the £8million-a-day cost of accommodating migrants in hotels. The paper says these properties, sourced from the private rental and social housing markets, are being used […]

Getting council housing is like winning the lottery

OUR nation is in slow motion economic collapse, edging ever closer to recession. As long term interest rates move lower, they signal that our land faces more of the same bitter medicine of the 2010s: unmanaged slump and worse living standards. Inquiring minds seek the truth about the cause of the UK’s dire economic performance. […]