Private renting has become “unaffordable” for most low income tenants as housing benefit is “so seriously out of line” with local rents, research by a housing body has suggested.
A freeze on local housing allowance (LHA) rates since 2016 is putting low income private tenants at risk of homelessness or poverty, analysis from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) warned.
The CIH report, entitled “Missing the Target? Is targeted affordability funding doing its job?”, said: “LHA rates are now so seriously out of line with local rents that private renting has become unaffordable for most low income tenants and this substantially increases their risk of homelessness.
