Cash-strapped Welsh tenants hit by the bedroom tax have been offered a free Cadbury’s creme egg as a “thank you” gift for coughing up extra rent.
The Star can reveal that Bridgend housing association Valleys to Coast (V2C) offered the sickening Easter sweetener in a letter sent on Tuesday to residents of its 6,000 homes.
Head of neighbourhoods Nigel Draper thanked tenants for their “efforts to pay the shortfall” a year after the Tories slashed their housing benefit.
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
Twelve months into Labour’s landslide sees non-violent protesters face proscription for opposing genocide and working people, the sick and the elderly having fear beaten into them daily in the name of profit, writes MATT KERR
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance


