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Nearly 1m children in UK at risk of poverty due to housing costs – report

Thinktank suggests ministers’ failure to raise LHA will push 90,000 more families into hardship in the next year

Nearly 1 million children in the UK are at risk of falling into poverty or will face financial hardship as a result of rising rents, shortfalls in government housing support and underinvestment in new social housing, according to a new report.

The study by the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank suggests the government’s failure to commit to raising the local housing allowance (LHA) will push 90,000 more families into financial hardship or poverty over the next year. It estimates 925,000 children are expected to be affected by shortfalls in government housing support by March 2026.

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