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Focus on supplement misses the point

Wednesday 18th of July 2012

House prices  - and rents - are going up because there are not enough houses being built to keep pace with demand.

To suggest that removing the accommodation supplement would cause rents to drop is naïve.

There’s no doubt the supplement is helping some tenants into houses that without it, they could not afford.

But there won’t be a massive decrease...

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