Up to 80,000 poorer households living in private rental accommodation in London could be forced to move as a direct result of cuts to housing benefit.
The claim is made in a new report into the reforms of the housing benefit system, which concludes that they are likely to widen the gap between Britain’s richest and poorest areas.
The research by Professor Chris Hamnett of King’s College, London, shows that worst affected by the cuts will be people in inner London and areas in the North, Scotland and Wales, which were formerly the UK’s major industrial and mining areas.
Professor Hamnett said: “In inner London where rents are very high, thousands of low-income households who receive benefit will be effectively excluded from the private-rented sector in much of central London, creating an even higher degree of social class and income segregation in the capital between a rich and increasingly gentrified central and inner area, and lower-cost areas.”
What effect will this have on the rest of the country?
The claim is made in a new report into the reforms of the housing benefit system, which concludes that they are likely to widen the gap between Britain’s richest and poorest areas.
The research by Professor Chris Hamnett of King’s College, London, shows that worst affected by the cuts will be people in inner London and areas in the North, Scotland and Wales, which were formerly the UK’s major industrial and mining areas.
Professor Hamnett said: “In inner London where rents are very high, thousands of low-income households who receive benefit will be effectively excluded from the private-rented sector in much of central London, creating an even higher degree of social class and income segregation in the capital between a rich and increasingly gentrified central and inner area, and lower-cost areas.”
What effect will this have on the rest of the country?
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