Property News · December 9, 2016

The housing poverty trap means work doesn't pay


A toxic trio of high rents, low pay and cuts to in-work benefits have created a perfect storm, with housing costs fueling povertyIs your housing making you poor? This week’s report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warned that while overall poverty rates remain largely static, the headline figures mask increasing insecurity in many people’s housing and employment conditions. Related: Study finds 7m Britons in poverty despite being from working families Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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