{"id":79024,"date":"2025-09-01T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79024"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:58:14","slug":"english-councils-pay-private-landlords-millions-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/01\/english-councils-pay-private-landlords-millions-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-families\/","title":{"rendered":"English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LCgOs.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Manchester city council spent the most on landlord incentives to house homeless families: \u00a33.3m in 2024-25. Photograph: Christopher Thomond\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Councils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to house homeless families, with campaigners describing it as a \u201csenseless waste of public money\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/english-councils-pay-private-landlords-millions-in-incentives-to-house-homeless-families\/ar-AA1LC0Fk?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=3bdc4fed67d44598bfc1a4dcfff6\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Councils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/empty-social-housing.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79025,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79024\/revisions\/79025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}