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Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
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The other problem is that if the market rents reach such a level beyond which HB will pay, you have what some regard as 'population cleansing' as people are forced out of certain areas.
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but isn't the same true for those in employment?
My niece can't afford to rent in certain (quite a lot, actually) parts of London, and she has a reasonably paid job, so she has 40-50 minute tube journeys at the beginning and end of each day, but I don't hear anyone calling for support for people like her and her peer group....
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