Faisal Islam
Spending cuts target child benefits, tax credits and social housing
Faisal Islam blogs on how the government’s spending cuts will hit child benefits, tax credits and social housing hard.
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June budget 2010: housing benefit, child poverty and taxes
Cathy Newman and the Channel 4 News FactCheck team examine the claims in George Osborne’s first budget.
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Coastal town Hastings calls for housing crisis solutions
For the second report of our Sea Wall series, looking at the coastal towns of England and Wales, we’ve been to Hastings on the south coast.
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Boris Johnson announces housing reform in comeback speech
Working people in England will soon be allowed to spend housing benefit on mortgage payments. Boris Johnson said the reform would “turn benefits to bricks” – as part of a new scheme giving housing association tenants the right to buy their homes at a discounted price.
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Severe housing shortage in England’s most deprived area
Jaywick has become a byword for deprivation, suffering the stigma of topping the government’s list of the most deprived areas in the country three times now.
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‘We would look to lift benefit cap,’ says Labour’s John Healey
John Healey is Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Communities.
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FactCheck Q&A: how much do we spend on social housing?
Kensington and Chelsea brought in more money from Stamp Duty Land Tax than any other UK local authority in 2015/16.
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Why are housing associations failing to build enough homes?
Government plans to build more affordable homes are being frustrated by the poor performance of housing associations, official figures show.
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Mhairi Black: ‘Only 20-year-old in UK helped with housing’
Mhairi Black, the youngest MP in the Commons, tells the house that she is the only 20-year-old in the UK the chancellor is prepared to help with housing costs following last week’s budget.
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‘Birmingham’s benefits queen’: I fear eviction after budget
Will the poorer get poorer after the benefit changes announced by George Osborne? Darshna Soni meets a single mum with eight children, who is worried she could be evicted because of the welfare cap.
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Lib Dems reveal Tory child benefit cut proposals
Lib Dem Danny Alexander says Conservative proposals in 2012 to cut child benefit and child tax credits, show where future cuts may come. The Conservatives say those plans were not backed by the PM.
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Generation rent: a family trapped by lack of housing stock
Channel 4 News meets a family trapped in a rental dilemma: they could buy their current flat but it’s now too small for them, so is their dream of a home of their own now out of reach?
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Will stamp duty cuts leave you locked out of housing market?
It was the chancellor’s big autumn giveaway. Now many warn that cuts to stamp duty could have the opposite effect: increasing house prices and leaving more people frozen out of home ownership.
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Are Cameron’s migrant benefits cuts really a game-changer?
David Cameron reveals his plans to stop EU migrants coming into the UK to claim benefits. But can he get other member states to agree? And are the proposals enough to bring down immigration numbers?
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Cameron welcomes ECJ ruling against benefits tourist
The Tories (and Labour, I hear) are looking at stopping access to non-contributory benefits (which is most benefits) even for EU citizens who are working their chaussettes off.
