Public housing tenants, he said, will face higher rents closer to the market rates for private housing.
The bill will force councils to sell much of their social housing and curb lifelong council tenancies, introducing "pay to stay" rules that will force better-off council tenants to pay rents closer to market levels.
The 2011 Localism Act, which allowed this move towards less secure tenancies and rents closer to market values, is not the only piece of recent government lawmaking that Crisis and other homelessness campaigners object to.
A small number of council tenants who earn more than £100,000 a year will also face eviction if they refuse to pay unsubsidised rents closer to the market rate.
Housing groups today reacted angrily to government plans to bring social housing rents closer to private sector ones, with the National Housing Federation, which represents English housing associations, warning that the change could lead to thousands of low income families having to pay up to £9,000 a year more in rent.
There is also alarm over the so-called "pay-to-stay" policy under which social housing tenants will have to pay rents closer to market rates once their household income passes £40,000 in London, or £30,000 for those outside the capital.
Eventually, the family needed to bring the rents closer to market rate, though, which would have pushed out the artists.
A We've rented close to 200 of the 500 market-rate units at over $75 a square foot.
He was talking not only of lies, such as applying from a false address, but also of tricks such as renting close to a desired school and moving there temporarily around application time.
The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
