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Housing benefit reforms creating ghettos

31/12/2023

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AJ Williamson

Reforms to housing benefits would push claimants into ghettos as tenants are forced to move to areas where housing is cheap but jobs scarce, Shelter warned. The local housing allowance (LHA), which replaces housing benefit, is not enough to cover private sector rent for many tenants and those who lose out will need to meet the shortfall themselves or move to cheaper areas.

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