END HOUSING INSECURITY NOW
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END HOUSING INSECURITY NOW
Big Issue’s End Housing Insecurity Now campaign has started with a bang.
We launched our campaign to challenge Rishi Sunak to help prevent nine million renters living in poverty from losing their homes, and drove the point home by steering a ‘Rishi’s Removals’ van around the streets of Westminster.
Renters are facing a crippling barrage of cost increases from all sides, with rising fuel, food and rent costs, leaving those on universal credit and housing benefit being driven into debt and homelessness just to afford the basics.
It’s a phenomenon The Big Issue is seeing first hand. Jon Gregg, 60, who sells the magazine in Parliament Hill Fields, at the Hampstead Heath entrance next to William Ellis School in London, rents a flat with a housing association: “The cost of living crisis kicked in for me in September 2022. As costs rose, my sales dipped.
“I rent a flat with my partner and, in April, the rent went up significantly. Now, I am always living week to week with regards to paying the rent. It’s a big worry for me. I welcome the campaign, I hope that the government sit up and take notice and address renters’ rights in the UK.”
The Big Issue is asking the prime minister to bring forward the Renters Reform Bill, unfreeze local housing allowance, which is currently fixed at 2018/19
