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Report: London Councils Paid Private Landlords £15.8m in a Year to Get Them to Rent to Homeless Families

by Nye Jones

Exclusive: Data obtained by Novara Media shows that London councils are paying landlords costly incentives to house tenants who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in private rented properties - many of them in poor condition. Nye Jones reports.

Homeless Families and Social Cleansing: How Local Councils Are Forcing Vulnerable Households Out of London

by Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth

Exclusive: London Councils are ending their homeless duty to vulnerable families by forcing them to accept private rented tenancies hundreds of miles away, outside the capital, FOI's by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth reveal.