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Castle-dwelling aristocrats are raking in massive amounts of housing benefit through feudal property empires targeting the poor, a freedom of information request revealed yesterday.
In circumstances reminiscent of the Middle Ages — earls, barons, viscounts and lords are among a group of fat-cat landlords pocketing billions from cash-strapped tenants.
Adding insult to injury, the landlords are also the real beneficiaries of Britain’s welfare system, as they also receive the housing benefit provided to renters struggling to survive.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies
