"Chronic" insecurity in the private rented
sector in England has led to a fourfold increase since 2010 in the number of
households forced into homelessness when tenancies end. Loss of a private
tenancy is now the leading cause of homelessness in England, with the 16,000
households affected making up around a third of the 54,000 accepted as homeless
by councils in 2014/15, the annual Homelessness Monitor by the charity Crisis
and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found. They warned that local
authorities were "struggling to cope" with rising numbers of single
homeless people, with 88% saying they often or sometimes find it difficult to
help those aged 25-35 and 87% those aged 18-24. Two-thirds of English councils
reported that changes to the welfare system under the coalition government from
2010-15 had increased homelessness in their area. Read more on the BT website.
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