The `bedroom tax? ? a UK government policy introduced in 2013 that cut housing benefits for social tenants deemed to have a `spare? bedroom ? saved some public money, according to research by Steve Gibbons and colleagues. But the policy added further strain to the finances of people who were already disadvantaged. Their study, which examines whether the policy achieved its objectives and how the targeted families reacted, finds that the burden of the bedroom tax fell on social tenants who were unwilling or unable to move.

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29 July 2018     Paper Number CEPCP531

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Urban programme, Neighbourhoods programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Housing