{"id":18037,"date":"2013-10-31T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:42:34","slug":"bedroom-tax-forcing-citizens-into-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/10\/31\/bedroom-tax-forcing-citizens-into-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedroom Tax &#8220;forces citizens into crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Bedroomtax.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bedroomtax\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Bedroomtax.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bedroomtax\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Bedroomtax.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A community leader has said the new &#8220;Bedroom Tax&#8221; is forcing citizens into crime to stay in their homes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sue Leader of Ely Against the Bedroom Tax said: \u201cPeople are having to break the law to find the money to pay for this tax.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re seeing people having to resort to selling drugs, their possessions, anything that means anything to them\u201d, she claimed at a rally against the tax on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The tax, called a &#8220;spare room subsidy&#8221; by the government, sees housing benefits reduced if recipients have more bedrooms in their home than they need.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Saturday\u2019s rally saw at Cardiff City Hall saw over 100 people march against the tax.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners say spare rooms are unavoidable, with smaller properties hard to come by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff residents &#8220;turning to crime&#8221; to stay in their homes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":18048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3088,3089,1892,3090,3091,2917],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-bedroom-tax","tag-march","tag-protest","tag-rally","tag-welfare","tag-welfare-reform-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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