Housing benefits not keeping up with rent rises, says charity
After a spell of being homeless, Mario is making the most of his kitchen in his new flatPeople are being made homeless because housing benefits are not keeping up with rental costs, charities have said.The Bevan Foundation, which conducted the survey has said the UK government needs to increase benefits.
"I've got somewhere warm to stay, somewhere where I can cook my own food, somewhere where I can shut the door," he said. "Having my own place and being able to put my own stamp on it, make it mine and get back into things and reassess my life. It means the world to me." he said.One survey suggest there were almost no private rental properties in Wales that were affordable using housing benefitsMario can just about afford to top it up using his pension.
She said the UK government needed to "to get with the times, to get with the soaring cost of living so that people can start to use housing benefit for what it's meant to be for, to have somewhere safe you can call home".
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