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Scrap the "disastrous" bedroom tax or let Holyrood do it, MSPs have once again demanded of Westminster's Con-Dem coalition.
Some 80,000 households in Scotland have been hit by the policy which cuts housing benefit by up to 24 per cent for those living in council or housing association homes deemed to be "under-occupied."
Those households have a median gross income of just £209 a week yet face eviction unless they can pay an average of £728 a year in arrears - the equivalent of six weeks' rent.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
