Bedroom tax means more tenants face eviction, says housing group boss

The head of one of the country's biggest housing associations has warned of a rise in evictions of tenants because of the government's new under-occupancy penalty, more commonly known as the bedroom tax.

Mark Rogers, chief executive of Circle Housing Group, which manages 65,000 homes, said he felt it was inevitable that there would be a long-term increase in the number of people failing to pay their rent.

Nearly 4,000 of Circle's households are affected by the new rule, which reduces the amount of benefit paid to claimants if they are deemed to have too much living space.

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