The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to change Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates. LHA affects roughly one million low-income private renters across the country who receive housing support through Universal Credit or Housing Benefit. LHA rates have been frozen or held at current levels for 2026/27, and every major housing body warnsContinue reading “Frozen LHA. Rising Rents. Homes Slipping Away”
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Affordable Homes: Gone Since ’98 — Replaced By luxury Shoeboxes
Affordable social housing didn’t disappear — it just slipped out for a “quick refurb” in 1998 and never came back, leaving London staring at an empty plot and saying, “Right… so we’re just doing £2,300-a-month shoeboxes now?” Rents are so extortionate now that even the landlord’s calculator is saying, “Be serious, mate.” London rents areContinue reading “Affordable Homes: Gone Since ’98 — Replaced By luxury Shoeboxes”
People Aren’t Leaving London — They’re Escaping The Rent
Why are people moving out of London? People are moving out of London because the city’s basically become that ex who thinks they’re still irresistible while charging £2,300 a month for a broom cupboard. London’s so pricey even the pigeons are planning a move, and everyone else is just escaping with whatever savings survived theContinue reading “People Aren’t Leaving London — They’re Escaping The Rent”
