Shelter

More than three million people in England who are in work and rent their own homes don’t have enough savings to pay their rent for a month, if they lose their job.

Over a million families in England were stuck on waiting lists for social housing last year and a quarter of those have been waiting for more than five years. The government says it IS tackling the problem, committing 9 billion pounds to build more affordable homes. But the housing charity Shelter, which compiled the figures,…