23% of spending on housing costs

Almost a quarter of low income families' regular spending was swallowed up by housing-related costs last year, official figures have shown.

Stark differences in family spending were highlighted in the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) figures, which showed that the 10% of households with the lowest incomes spent 23% of their weekly outgoings on housing, fuel and power.
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