“Raising it to that extent makes it more difficult for people who are on minimum wage to get considered.
“If people are earning £50,000 a year, I’m sure they can actually afford to go into private accommodation.”
The council’s director of housing services, Patrick Odling-Smee, said the council needed to ensure there were people on the list who could afford more expensive, but still technically “affordable”, homes in the borough.
He said: “One of the issues we have at the minute is that some of the properties that we are letting are properties that have “affordable rent”, which can be up to 80 per cent of market rent.