As the government's consultation for its new child poverty strategy draws to a close later this month, life is getting tougher for many of the most vulnerable families. About 3.5 million children are living in poverty in the UK; 1.6 million of them in severe poverty. Children who live in poverty are almost twice as likely to be in bad housing.
Research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 'housing costs induced poverty' has been increasing over the past two decades and that low rents are important to reducing poverty. A recent study from Barnardo's found that families are facing a daily choice between eating and heating, while a survey by Shelter showed that hundreds of thousands of people across Britain have taken out a payday loan in order to meet their housing costs.
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