100,000 children will be homeless this Christmas but councils
have a duty to find children that have nowhere to live somewhere to sleep.
Councils do their best but don’t have enough affordable housing and are only
building half the homes needed each year, while the number of genuinely
affordable homes falls. Combined with growing house prices, the shortage of
affordable homes pushes more families into the private rented sector. The
single leading cause of homelessness is the end of private tenancies. There’s
nothing in law that stops landlords asking families to leave come the end of
their short-term fixed tenancy. What makes it all harder is growing rent costs
– combined with cuts to social security. They’ve removed the safety net that
many low-income families need to cover costs. Read more on the Shelter blog.
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