As the United kingdoms housing crisis s has become mainstream news,
with next weeks marches planned to riase the social housing bill
the central London boroughs are now under fire from all sides both from the new housing bill which threatens to demolish without replacing the existing stock, a rise in house property prices has overheated the private renting sector, today housing groups Hello@hackneyrenters.org took to the streets visiting the local letting agents with a message from Rosie the fair rent mayor. Supported by former residents of Peabody buildings and Sisters uncut ,
The message to all concerned was that the private renting sector is denying the poor and often displaced with the constant refusal to accommodate those who are receiving housing benefits,
Letting agents refuse to house people on housing benefit - this is terrible for lots of people, from people claiming benefit to top up their low wages, to single parents, to disabled people.

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The number of people claiming benefits to cover their rent has soared recently because rent has gotten so expensive.

And now more and more letting agents also refuse to house people who work part time, are self employed or don't earn high enough wages.

has the right to buy scheme made property owners less human and more the slumlords and avaricious rent barons , as the social housing bill will certainly turn the clock back on the issue of housing

Where are all of these people supposed to go? With steep house prices and very little social housing, private renting is the last chance for more and more people in London to be housed.