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Autumn budget: Labour’s failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is ‘deeply worrying’
Housing benefits

Autumn budget: Labour’s failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is ‘deeply worrying’

Local housing allowance was unfrozen for the first time in four years earlier this year and Labour has been under pressure to ensure housing benefit keeps pace with rising rents

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless
Joanna Elson

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless

Local housing allowance rates are set to be refrozen in April, leaving a larger gap between housing benefit and rising rents. Labour must take action at the budget to prevent older people becoming homeless, says Independent Age’s Joanna Elson

‘The market is broken’: Just 5% of private rentals in London are affordable to low-income earners
Housing crisis

‘The market is broken’: Just 5% of private rentals in London are affordable to low-income earners

Only 5% of London rentals are affordable to low-income earners. Urgent housing reforms are needed

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