But the Guardian strikes back ...

Here.

The only sensible interpretation of this being is that people who rent to people on benefits are evil*. Presumably because they should be renting, at mate's rates, to Guardian journalists. Rather than to people who actually need the accommodation.

* Some of them might indeed be. Slum landlords and the ghost of Rachman. Although when I was renting out, it cost a small fortune on your insurance to rent to Housing Benefit claimants.