Families who rely on state help to pay their rent will
have to find hundreds of pounds extra every month to to avoid eviction because
of the government’s freeze on housing benefit, Shelter has warned. Demands from
Shelter and other housing organisations for a government rethink come as a
number of local authorities report that many of those being evicted and rendered
homeless are now in full-time work, typically in public sector jobs such as
teaching or nursing. Ahead of the
budget, the charities are calling on ministers to end the freeze, which is set
to run until 2020, and to build more affordable homes in areas of need, or to
risk a further explosion in the already rapidly rising numbers being placed in
costly emergency accommodation by their local authorities. Read more on the
Observer website.
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