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Almost half of poor workers skimping on food to pay rent
Shelter demands 1 million affordable homes be built to save families from exorbitant rents. By Felicity Collier
A MILLION genuinely affordable houses are needed over the next decade because nearly half of low-income workers are having to cut back on basics to pay rent, housing charity Shelter warned yesterday.
Some 44 per cent of low-paid working families are reining in their spending on food, clothes and toys to pay extortionate rents.
Shelter urged the building of 500,000 “fair-rent” homes — with rents tied to local incomes — on top of 500,000 council houses over the next 10 years to help those struggling in private rented housing.
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