The government should be doing more to help young people
into the private rented sector (PRS), a group of MPs and peers has said. A new
report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group has called on the government to
review housing benefit and tax rules to ensure younger people get fair access
to the homes they need. The group, which has been carrying out an inquiry into
PRS housing for under-35s, heard that the sector is growing and has the highest
proportion of young people of any housing tenure. Nearly a fifth (18%) of all
English households now rent privately, more than half of which are under 35.
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Trevor Hendy obituary
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My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development
at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,
among o...
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