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High rents and benefit cuts push poorer renters out of UK’s cities, report finds

‘Surburbanisation of poverty’ is changing social fabric of cities and widening gap between rich and poor

The social fabric of the UK’s biggest cities is being transformed by sky-high rents and cuts to housing benefits as thousands of low-income private renters are pushed out of central areas, accelerating the “suburbanisation” of poverty, according to a study.

The trend – driven also by the gentrification of once largely working-class neighbourhoods and the selloff of social homes – is excluding poorer people from inner cities and deepening divisions between rich and poor, the study found.

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