Housing benefits | Society | guardian.co.uk

Housing benefits | Society | guardian.co.uk

The Chartered Institute of Housing reveals that if rents rise as they have historically done, then the poor will simply be priced out of many towns and cities in Britain. Instead they will be shepherded into islands of poverty in the south where housing is cheap, or into the north where there is a dearth of jobs. Within 15 years, the southern parts of the country become simply unaffordable.