Benefit Cuts Will Require Extra Support for Migrants

Changes to housing benefit mean government ministers, social housing providers and private landlords need to give more help to migrants, a new report has found. The Housing and Migration Network says welfare reform means it is more important than ever to make sure migrants are living in acceptable housing. It says poor housing in the private sector, where 75 per cent of migrants live, can fuel neighbourhood problems and local tensions. The report, hi, says solutions that incentivise good landlords but are tough on bad landlords - including licensing schemes and local lettings schemes - could improve the PRS. Neighbourhood relations may deteriorate if action is not taken, the report warns, as houses in multiple occupation can instigate a range of environmental problems if landlords fail to manage the property adequately. Download a copy of the report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.