In March, the government announced a three-month
suspension of evictions and a marginal restoration of housing benefit to 2015
levels. The suspension is scheduled to end in mid-June, and has not been
extended, leaving renters fearing for the future. With their median weekly
household earnings already £161 lower than mortgage holders’, private renters’
housing costs on average eat up around a third of total household income. And
this is before the effects of the recession. Recent analysis from the New
Economics Foundation found that a minimum-wage worker who loses their job and
has to rely on universal credit will have their income cut by 45%. Read more on
the Guardian website.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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