Private Rents in City Unaffordable: Charity
Plymouth Evening Herald, The › October 14, 2011
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PRIVATE rents in Plymouth are unaffordable and beyond the means of the average family, according to a housing charity. Anyone on middle-of-the-road income - around Pounds 1,500 takehome pay a month - and living in an average two-bedroom house would pay more than 35per cent of wages on rent, according to research by Shelter, published yesterday. The charity said this was the level judged to be affordable.
Plymouth joins the 55per cent of local authority areas facing a housing crisis. Shelter said more than a third of families with children who rent privately had cut back on food to pay the rent.See the full content of this document
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Private Rents in City Unaffordable: Charity
Rents have risen at one-and-ahalf times the rate of incomes in the ten years up to 2007.
Families which need bigger ...See the full content of this document
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