Why 2013 will be a boom year for bailiffs and slum landlords

by liamssoft | November 24, 2012 at 12:42 am

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Britain keeps plunging further back in time as yet another plank of the welfare state is removed. This month we just slipped back 46 years, to before Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home shocked the nation on the plight of homeless families. His film – about a family falling into ever worse housing, from caravan to hostel, until their children are taken into care – launched a change in the law that entered the national state of mind. From then on, the welfare state would house the vulnerable with nowhere else to go. Local authorities were given a legal obligation to take families in and find them social housing locally at an affordable rent. No longer......Read more

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