{"id":79156,"date":"2025-09-04T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79156"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:44:18","slug":"cash-strapped-councils-pay-landlords-15k-to-house-britains-worst-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/04\/cash-strapped-councils-pay-landlords-15k-to-house-britains-worst-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped councils pay landlords \u00a315k to house Britain\u2019s worst tenants"},"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\/AA1LNDyx.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An array of To Let and For Sale signs protrude from houses in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Councils are spending millions of pounds on incentive payments to landlords to house high-risk\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/property\/council-tenants-keep-social-housing-life-earn-100k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">social housing tenants<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/cash-strapped-councils-pay-landlords-15k-to-house-britain-s-worst-tenants\/ar-AA1LNkMI?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b5e052352eca4d869b9972236954a246&amp;ei=89\">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 are spending millions of pounds on incentive payments to landlords to house high-risk\u00a0social housing tenants. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79156","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\/2025\/05\/social_housing-complaint.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79156","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=79156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79157,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79156\/revisions\/79157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}