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London housing: Landlords refuse housing benefit claimants and terminate their tenancy agreements early, London Assembly finds
Capital's private-sector renters dealt double blow as profiteering landlords refuse access to crisis-hit housing market to the quarter of city households on housing benefit

London landlords are refusing to rent to housing benefit recipients because of welfare cuts, the London Assembly has found.

An assembly housing committee report published today showed that landlords are increasingly likely to terminate tenancy agreements prematurely.

There has been a four-fold increase in the number of tenancy terminations since 2010, rising from 300 to over 1,400 per quarter.

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