The government’s plans to cap housing benefit at Local
Housing Allowance (LHA) levels would lock 84% of young people in low-paid,
insecure jobs out of all housing options in the South East. This is the warning
from research by Sheffield Hallam University for the Consortium of Associations
in the South East (CASE). CASE members said the government should reconsider
using the shared accommodation rate as the maximum level for housing benefit
for under-35s. Instead, it should give associations and local authorities the
freedoms and flexibilities to continue to meet the housing needs of this group,
the report said. Researchers said in their report Capping aspiration: the millennial housing challenge that some 84%
of people aged under 35 in the South East would be affected when benefits are
capped from April 2019. Download the report from the Sovreign website.
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