Today marks the end of the Government’s consultation on plans to charge higher earning social tenants more rent.
The plan is so blunt and affects such a relatively small number of people – 51,000 if the Government chooses to set the threshold at £60,000 – that it has been described by some as ‘taking a sledgehammer to a nut’.
Leaving aside the obvious fragmentation and uncertainty of three separate rent regimes operating in the social mix – the hangover fro...
