goldman it's now twenty four billion pounds every single year but the point is is subsidizing private lundell charging extortionate rents is not learning. pockets of these tenants the reason housing benefit the bill has just exploded in size by some to new labor on the tories is because successive governments have refused to let councils build housing to replace the stock that was sold off in the eighties huge amounts of hundreds of thousands of council homes were sold off and not replaced forcing people into the private rented sector where rents a much higher lung will charge extortionate rents expects you know the time spent to step in and subsidize the so instead of cutting housing benefit of the day will end up hitting the tenant because it will simply be passed on to the tenant in that way what we should be doing is letting councils build housing let them borrow which would create jobs stimulate the economy pay for itself as they get a stream of rent coming in and bring down housing benefit even that loonie leftie but the conservative maryland has supported that sort of approach so what