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Housing benefit can help eligible claimants cover their rent if they re unemployed, on a low income or claiming other benefits. The amount received could cover some or all of a person s rent but recently, Rishi Suank and the wider government laid out plans for how certain state benefits will be altered for the year ahead, with housing benefit set to be drastically affected.
Tenants, landlords and letting agents need urgent support as the rent debts crisis worsens, according to a call for action backed by various bodies.
A joint statement, backed by organisations including the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), Shelter, StepChange Debt Charity and Nationwide Building Society, calls for a package of measures to help renters pay off arrears built since March 2020 when the initial lockdown started.
They warned that without further action, debts will keep building and it will be harder to keep renters in their homes.
The call is also backed by the Big Issue, Ride Out Recession Alliance and Arla (Association of Residential Letting Agents) Propertymark.
The Big Issue experiments with interactive storytelling to help readers explore homelessness
The new choose your own adventure-style game shows audiences how easily can someone find themselves without a secure home
Posted: 16 December 2020 By: Marcela Kunova
Credit: Mitchel Ceney
The Big Issue is experimenting with a new interactive game to give its readers an opportunity to virtually experience the path to homelessness.
With the new choose your own adventure-style feature Pick Your Path, readers make choices to see how easily people can fall into homelessness. They follow four stories with multiple endings, choosing between someone who has recently faced bereavement, left the armed forces, just arrived in the UK, or is battling addiction. Each story is based on the life of a real