Sandwell tenants face 7.6pc rent rise
Friday 22nd July 2011, 5:00PM BST.
Council tenants in Sandwell will have to pay hundreds of pounds extra in rent after a 7.6 per cent rise was approved.
It means tenants in the borough’s 29,000 council homes will have to find an average of £5.44 extra a week.
That equates to more than £282 a year.
The increase was approved at a private meeting yesterday.
The increase, approved by Sandwell’s finance chief Councillor Steve Eling and housing boss, Councillor Simon Hackett, will see the new average weekly rent bill increase to £77.17, from around £72.
The new rate will come into effect in October.
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