Benefit Changes Driving Increase In PRS Homelessness

New research reinforces changes to the benefit system as behind the decade-long increase in homelessness from private rented sector (PRS) housing. It comes a week after a United Nations report damned the government’s “callous” approach to welfare reform. Specifically, the research references the 2008 introduction of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA), as a way of calculating Housing Benefit payments for low income households. The gap between LHA rates and actual rents has increased in recent years and is expected to continue to increase in the future. A quarter of landlords surveyed in this research reported that this gap was more than £100 per month. Read more on 24housing.

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