Nearly one in five private renting parents are now more concerned their family will become homeless as a result of the Covid crisis, new research from Shelter shows (see). As the country moves out of lockdown, the chronic lack of social housing has left struggling families with few options to escape the insecurity of private renting. A third of parents who rent from private landlords are more negative about their long-term housing situation. Shelter reported that 49,000 have resorted to using foodbanks since lockdown and cut back on food to help pay rent; 550,000 took on debt (overdrafts, credit cards, payday loans, borrowing from bank/family/friends) to help pay rent since lockdown. Pray for people in poverty to have a home they can afford. See also the next article, ‘Outdated Planning System’.
Private renting parents fear ‘Covid-homelessness’
Written by David Fletcher 06 Aug 2020![Private renting parents fear ‘Covid-homelessness’](/media/k2/items/cache/1428d8aa53b14fc193901b715ca2418d_L.jpg)
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- Pray: for the Government to give hard-pressed families a way out of private renting, and for councils to plan ahead for land purchases for affordable homes. (Isaiah 32:18)
- More: www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/29836