37 Per Cent of  South West Homeless Families Juggling Full Time Work with Nowhere to Live:

37 Per Cent of  South West Homeless Families Juggling Full Time Work with Nowhere to Live:

Over a third of homeless families stuck in temporary accommodation in the South West are trying to juggle work with having nowhere to live.

The findings come from homeless charity Shelter’s freedom of information requests made of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Working homelessness comes from high private rents, a freeze on housing benefit and ‘chronic’ lack of social housing the charity says.

Findings show that more than 500 families in the south west are working full time yet have nowhere to live. This has leapt by 80 per cent in comparison to 2013 when 300 families were homeless and working.

“It’s disgraceful that even when families are working every hour they can, they’re still forced to live through the grim reality of homelessness,” Polly Neate, CEO of Shelter said.

“In many cases, these are parents who work all day or night before returning to a cramped hostel or B&B where their whole family is forced to share a room. A room with no space for normal family life like cooking, playing or doing homework.”

Shelter is calling on the government to come up with a new plan for social housing and ‘genuinely’ affordable homes.

The end of a tenancy is now the biggest cause of homelessness, which accounts for 27 per cent of all households which were accepted by their local authority as being homeless over the last year.

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