Majority of tenants don’t pay rent
Author: Daily Express |
Nearly two-thirds of council housing tenants get all their rent paid by the taxpayer, it was revealed last night.
The massive benefits handout – largely to households where no one has a job – is costing hard-working middle-income families a total of £10billion a year.
That is the equivalent of £476 every year for every privately-owned home in Britain
Figures reveal there are now three million households living in publicly-owned homes whose rent is funded through housing benefit.
NHF director Ruth Davison said: “Sixty per cent of tenants don’t pay their own bills, they are paid for by the taxpayer.”