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Today the Housing and Planning Bill is being debated in the House of Commons. Whilst most of the attention so far has been on changes to social housing, the Bill is also…

The growing number of private renters in poverty has been one of the biggest poverty changes in recent years. This poses challenges not just in terms of affordability, but quality…

In the third of our safety net series we look at the role housing benefit and how, through a series of subtle changes, the safety net for renters is shrinking fast. There are two…

Rises in social sector rents undermine work, welfare reform and deficit reduction. The headline finding in last week’s English Housing Survey was that there are now more private…

Is “a home not a dwelling, sound, affordable and secure” now the rock on which efforts to end child poverty should be built? This was the week when the government was expected…

Last week's ONS figures pointed to something very important about the developing “cost of living crisis” – but the message is not quite what it seemed at first sight. The figures…

In the report we published this week with the Trust for London, we looked at the changing pattern of poverty in the capital. A key finding of the report is that the pattern of…

Today, Trust for London published our London Poverty Profile 2013; the fourth in series of reports looking at a range of indicators of poverty and disadvantage. These include low…

In 2013, following years of increase, the number of private rented housing benefit claims in Inner London fell whilst in Outer London it continued to grow. Many commentators have…

Last week saw the publication of the latest set of homelessness statistics. The number of households in temporary accommodation in October-December 2012 is 9% up on the same time…

Today JRF published a findings paper on the links between housing and poverty. It covers the headline housing and poverty statistics but also the dynamics between housing, work and…

Last week, Darren Johnson, one of the Green Party’s members in the London assembly, claimed that new housing benefit figures showed rising numbers of low income families being…

Today NPI’s 15th annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report is published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  To coincide with the report, this week we will be writing a…

New figures show that the number of English households in private rented accommodation has risen by almost 50% in five years. There are now almost as many households in private…