Housing Crisis Fuels Record Number Of Working Families Living In Poverty

Britain’s housing crisis has driven the number of people living in poverty despite being in a working family to a record 7.4 million, according to new research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The annual Monitoring Poverty & Social Exclusion report shows that 3.8 million workers are living in poverty, more than one in 10 of all people in employment.  In total, 13.5 million people – more than one in five of the UK’s population – are living in poverty. Overall levels of poverty have remained flat compared to 2010, thanks to the economic recovery – but in-work poverty has risen by 1.1 million over the same period. The rise has been driven by the housing crisis and in particular high costs and insecurity in the private rented sector. Read the report online at the JRF website.