Benefits 'needed to avoid eviction'

Working families increasingly depend on state benefits to avoid eviction from their homes due to a soaring housing market, research has found.

A failure to build enough new homes in recent years has pushed rents and house prices up, and led to an 86% increase in housing benefit claims since 2009 by those in employment, according to a National Housing Federation (NHF) report.
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%