The Guardian has today released a detail account of how the cuts have affected housing...
Total cuts: £5.8bn
The social housing budget will be cut by £4bn in 2011-14, and the emergency budget which was announced last June saw a £1.8bn cut in housing benefit.
Redundancies: 200,000
Sunderland housing provider Gentoo have axed 275 of it's 1,800 staff. This adds to the 1,400 housing job losses after the collapse of Leeds-based housing maintenance firm, Connaught, and 100 of the 600-strong workforce at Knowsley Housing Trust.
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Funding has been cut by 50% which will result in fewer affordable homes and half a million more people added to England's 4.5 million strong waiting list. The restructure of benefits could leave tenants unable to pay their rent and subsequently forcing them from their homes. The government's suggestion of plugging the funding gap by charing new tenants up to 80% of market rates means average weekly rents rising from £85 to £250.
To see which organisations are still recruiting, please visit http://www.housingjobs.org.uk/
Source: Guardian, 2011
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