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Thousands of people have seen their paycheques stretched even further after rents increased to an unprecedented high in the last year, new figures revealed today.
Private-sector rents have reached an average high of £761 a month across England and Wales — a 2.4 per cent increase on 2013.
The raises are contributing to worsening problems for tenants — with one in every 13 people now unable to pay their rents on time or at all.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
