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Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows.
No curbs on rents.
Shortage of social housing. 2.8m council homes sold since the 1980s, not replaced.
Low wages, 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
Poverty is a political choice.
theguardian.com
Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows
Wirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London