Cost Shunting in Housing

The Guardian reports on the vast scale of the coming homelessness problems caused by the ConDem government's cuts programme.  As it says, much of the supposed saving will have to be picked up by other parts of the public sector, especially local authorities, which have a statutory duty to protect homeless people.

I well recall that when the NHS was trying to pass "savings" on to Brent Council's social services, Cllr Paul Lorber was constantly ranting about "cost shunting".  Now that his own government is doing something very similar on the housing front, he is strangely silent.