This is the first UK study to provide a detailed qualitative longitudinal analysis of the interaction between poverty and housing over lifetimes. The report shows that good and stable housing can mitigate poverty and support life transitions.
The report also documents the painful reality of negotiating an increasingly expensive and constrained housing system. It finds that:
The study supports the call for increasing the supply of social rented housing, rolling back time-limited tenancies and offering more support to tenants to make and sustain a home.
Future policy needs to better address complex lives and life events, shifting focus from the provision of housing to the provision of homes that can offer people some degree of certainty, control, and protection.
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