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Some of us were making that very point at the time
#CapitalEconomics described the Treasury position as #FiscalMyopia
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SHOUT SOCIAL HOUSING UNDER THREAT • National Federation of ALMOs Championing better homes and communities BUILDING NEW SOCIAL RENT HOMES AN ECONOMIC APPRAISAL Evaluating the economic case for building 100,000 new social rent homes each year A report by Capital Economics for SHOUT and the National Federation of ALMOs | June 2015 Justin Chaloner Alexandra Dreisin Mark Pragnell
January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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As #SHOUT said in 2015 in our @capitaleconomics.bsky.social crowdfunded report.
This is #FiscalMyopia.
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August 28, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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We didn't call it #FiscalMyopia for nothing
"Social homes would lower the welfare bill for 89% of the households claiming housing benefit in the private rented sector, and 82% of the households would have higher disposable incomes"
Bar chart showing the increase in benefits paid to private landlords for 1995 to 2014. Private tenants cost an additional #1,100 a year in 2014-15 Social homes would lower the welfare bill for 89% of the households claiming housing benefit in the private rented sector And 82% of the households would have higher disposable incomes
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM