Keire Murphy: Plan to increase housing supply with rent reforms is built on a major contradiction
Relying heavily on private sector investment for housing creates conflicts of interest where landlords profit from rent increases rather than affordability improvements.
English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families
Councils across England are paying millions in one-off incentives to private landlords to house homeless families, increasing sharply and worsening already strained local authority budgets.