Almost 80,000 families a year could be homeless by 2020, warns former Labour housing minister
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Almost 80,000 families a year in England face the prospect of becoming homeless by 2020 unless Theresa May abandons controversial cuts to housing benefit and support, it has been claimed.
The projection, which includes 60,000 households with children, is in addition to those sleeping rough on the streets. The new statistics will likely alarm campaigners who have already warned the country’s most vulnerable people would not be able to afford the rent on their homes if the Government goes ahead with the budget cuts.
John Healey, who resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench as the shadow housing minister following the European Union referendum, has published his projections, provided to The Independent, in an attempt to persuade Ms May’s new administration to abandon cuts to housing support and housing benefit pencilled in by the former Chancellor George Osborne.