What an unhappy coincidence that on the day the
Residential Landlords Association chose to bleat about Labour’s planned rent
controls, the private rented sector was fingered as one of the main reasons for
the growth in the numbers of homeless families. The latest Homelessness
Monitor, published by Crisis, shows that losing a private tenancy now accounts
for almost one-third of official homelessness cases and is the reason behind
most of the recent growth in caseloads. Private sector rent levels are also
helping to drive up homelessness because they are often too high to be eligible
for housing benefit. Read more on the
Red Brick blog.
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