The average gap between housing benefit rates and the actual cost of rents has grown by more than 40 per cent in the last five months, it’s been claimed.
Research from the homelessness charity Crisis and the property portal Zoopla claims that just 11 per cent of one-bedroom properties in England are now affordable on Local Housing Allowance, down from 17 per cent in April.
The proportion of affordable two-bedroom properties has fallen to just seven per cent from 11 per cent and for three-beds now stands at six per cent down from 10 per cent earlier this year.
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