A new report warns that working families are increasingly depend on state benefits to avoid eviction from their homes due to an unaffordable housing market.
A failure to build enough new homes in recent years has pushed rents and house prices up, and led to an 86 per cent increase in housing benefit claims since 2009 by those in employment, according to a National Housing Federation (NHF) report.
The study said that 10,000 more working families now need housing benefit every month to help pay their rent, with 417,830 more workers claiming them over the last three years.
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