Housing Impacts

The gloomy effect of the government's benefit cuts are covered by Dave Hill in the Guardian.  The picture he paints is of small localised communities desperately trying to keep together to the bemusement of the government policy makers.  Recently, David Cameron opined that policy research, in that case into equality impacts, was unneeded because"smart people in Whitehall" knew best.  This seems to be an example where the narrowness of backgrounds of the smart people in Whitehall, and their failure to ask the people on the receiving end of their policies directly contributes to policy failure.