Housing Benefit Cuts Leading To Sharp Rise in Homelessness

Government cuts to housing benefit are causing more people in the private rented sector to become homeless and making it harder to rehouse people who are homeless, homeless charity Crisis has warned.  Private tenants are under pressure as a fifth of all households were accepted as homeless because of the end of an assured shorthold tenancy in the PRS, a 30% increase in the last year and 60% on two years ago. Crisis says this is a clear sign that the Government’s cuts to housing benefit are leaving private tenants unable to afford their current property.  Read more on 24dash.