Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis

Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

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Help failing to keep pace with families facing ‘bed poverty’, says Barnardo’s

Exclusive: Children’s charity says applications for council support have quadrupled in England since 2018

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Let me talk about a paper that was just accepted in the Journal of the European Economics Association.

This paper studies the cuts to #HousingBenefit, specifically, the cut to #LocalHousingAllowance.

In that paper we show that the cut drastically increased #evictions, it ripped communities apart, and came at a huge cost to councils.

We estimate that for every GBP 1 pound the central govt saved in #HousingBenefit, council #homelessness #prevention increased easily by 53 pence.