The growing government Housing Benefit bill is due to a shortage of social rented housing and increased subsidies for expensive private sector rents, new research from the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has revealed (1).
The SFHA has called on the UK Government to stop stigmatising tenants in the social housing sector, and for both the UK and Scottish Governments to work together to maximise investing in new affordable homes for rent – the most cost-effective way to the pu...
