Whilst this department has been a mess for years it's difficult to see that staffing cuts on this scale will be any improvement without major cultural and procedural changes being made first.
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What do you mean improvement? This is part of the government wide cost cutting that has been going on since the pandemic lockdowns.
Does this mean 9 in 10 staff are vat-grown clones? Don't know why the hell that would justify firing the entire housing department, though.
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