People are increasingly being made homeless because they
cannot afford their rent or their landlord kicks them out at the end of a
tenancy agreement, according to government figures. Since 2010, homelessness
has gone up by just under a third amid a nationwide crisis in the number of
affordable homes. The figures, produced by the Department for Communities and
Local Government, showed the number of households who became homeless because
of the end of an assured, shorthold tenancy had gone up by 154 per cent between
the third quarters of 2010 and 2015. The number citing rent arrears as the
reason went up by 36 per cent. Labour said the figures demonstrated the
“particularly stark problems” that people in the private rented sector faced.
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