HOUSING activists targeted a series of east London estate agents this weekend in a call to end renting discrimination against people on benefits.

Dozens of people picketed letting agents in Hackney as part of the launch of the Yes DSS campaign — a reference to the long-defunct Department of Social Security (DSS), which has has become shorthand for benefits recipients.

The initiative follows the discovery by members of the housing group Hackney Renters (Digs) that only one studio flat in the borough was listed as available to people claiming housing benefit.