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