A United Nations representative is to take part in a meeting to hear how the bedroom tax is affecting the UK's social housing tenants.
Raquel Rolnik, the UN's special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, will hear from groups from all over Britain at the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation meeting in Manchester next week.
Anti-bedroom tax campaigners across the country will take part in a mass sleep out tomorrow night.
The sleep out is taking place in over 50 towns and cities across the UK in a bid to raise awareness about the government's controversial under-occupancy policy.
The Labour Party is set to lay into the government's expansive reforms of the benefits system later today.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne will claim that taxpayers are on course to lose £1.4 billion by 2015 as a result of the changes.
The vast majority of social housing tenants affected by the bedroom tax have no smaller properties available to them to downsize to.
Freedom of Information requests of local authorities by the Labour Party found that 96% of people hit by the government's controversial under-occupancy policy are effectively trapped in their current homes because of a countrywide lack of smaller accommodation.
Buy-to-let landlords are handing over more money to the taxman.
HMRC’s take from landlords in income tax on their rental income in 2010/11 was up 13% on the previous tax year.
Housing groups and charities have been left ‘deeply disappointed’ after the High Court dismissed a legal challenge to the government’s bedroom tax.
David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said the policy is unworkable, while Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, said the ruling was ‘devastating news’.
Half of Universal Credit claimants in some areas could struggle to use the government’s online system because they lack IT skills and have limited internet access, local government pilots have found.
The findings come in a report by the Department for Work and Pensions about 12 local authority pilots of the new benefits system. It has been published as the Universal Credit system is rolled out to job centres in Oldham and Warrington, having been started in Wigan and Ashton-Under-Lyne earlier this year.
Tenants on benefits are showing increasing signs of desperation as they search for private landlords who will accept them.
There are the first signs of a possible tipping point in the rental market, with LSL today reporting that the number of tenants is dropping as first-time buyer numbers rise.
A Communities and Local Government select committee report out today on the private rented sector said moving people out of London was the only way councils could mitigate the impact of benefit caps.
Cuts to benefits had left local authorities with too few properties in their boroughs where they could afford to house claimants, the MPs found.