What's the Benefit?

Last week, Inside Housing launched its ‘What’s the Benefit?’ campaign, which is asking for the government to reconsider reforms announced in the Budget which have the potential to damage hundreds of thousands of people.

We’re keen to hear from as many people as possible as we draw up our alternative offer to present to the government, as so over the next few weeks, we’ll be blogging here about the latest suggestions we’ve received from the sector, and new developments in the campaign.

If you’ve got a fantastic idea for how the soaring housing benefit bill could be kept in check without putting vulnerable tenants at risk of homelessness, email it to editorial@insidehousing.co.uk, and we’ll publish it on the blog, as well as collating it for the alternative offer of reform, which we’ll present to government in the autumn. If you’re a tenant who is worried about the reforms, or a landlord who is working out what a potential drop in housing benefit income will mean, please get in touch as well.

In the meantime, make sure that you sign our petition. Our goal is to reach 300 signatures, and we look set to hit that in the next few days as we’ve already gathered 234 supporters since Friday morning. You can also tweet about the campaign using the twitter hash tag #housingbenefit.