Housing charity Shelter is calling for the next
government to step in and help ‘rent-burdened Brits’. New figures from Shelter
and YouGov show tenants are being driven into debt to keep on top of their
rent, with over half a million low-earning renters borrowing from credit cards,
overdrafts or friends and family in the last year alone. Huge numbers of
low-earning private renters are only just managing to keep a roof over their
heads, with a staggering 70% either struggling with or falling behind on rent. As
private rents eat up income, 800,000 hard-pressed private renters are not even
able to save £10 a month according to a Shelter analysis of government
statistics. Read more on 24housing.
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