Since 2011, as benefits have been cut back, a black hole
has started to appear in our welfare system for private renters. This black
hole is the widening gap between housing benefit and rents at the very cheapest
end of the private rental market. This is because while housing benefit rates
for private renters have been frozen by the government, private rents have
continued to climb. We calculate that if something doesn’t change before
2019/20, the gap between housing benefit rates and local rents will have grown
so much that the black hole in Britain will be worth £1.9billion. More than one
million people will be affected by this. And few have the resources to
sustainably cover the increasing shortfalls. Read more on the Huffington Post
website.
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