Whitehall’s most senior housing chief links welfare
reform as ‘relevant’ to rising homelessness. Melanie Dawes, permanent secretary
at the MHCLG, told the Commons Public Accounts Committee her officials were
looking out for links between the numbers presenting as homeless and the
present application of the benefits system. But homelessness minister Heather
Wheeler has stated her surety that government cuts and welfare reform are not
causes, saying she didn’t know why homelessness was rising. Read more on
24housing.
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