Top Government Housing Official Links Welfare Reform As ‘Relevant’ To Rising Homelessness

Whitehall’s most senior housing chief links welfare reform as ‘relevant’ to rising homelessness. Melanie Dawes, permanent secretary at the MHCLG, told the Commons Public Accounts Committee her officials were looking out for links between the numbers presenting as homeless and the present application of the benefits system. But homelessness minister Heather Wheeler has stated her surety that government cuts and welfare reform are not causes, saying she didn’t know why homelessness was rising. Read more on 24housing.

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