Private rents too dear for families in most areas

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shows that families are priced out of the rental market "control" in 55% of local authorities in English

families have been left for rent in most local authorities in England, under the shelter of the homeless charity.

La Guardia rental housing found that average rents private out of reach of ordinary working families in 55% of local authorities in England. Typical rents charged by private owners were more than a third of the median home, the accepted measure of affordability.

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said that research has shown that 38% of families with children who had dropped private rented food to pay their rent.

Although the rent was traditionally seen as a cheaper alternative to ownership, the credit crunch and high home prices have forced many potential buyers remain as tenants.

At the same time, an increasing number of people who normally would be entitled to social housing have been pushed to the private sector by an acute shortage of local authorities and property of the housing association. The number of private tenants rent has increased by nearly one million over the past five years.

The increased demand has pushed up rents, especially in the cities of London, which are the most expensive in England. £ 1360, an average rent of a house with two rooms in the capital is almost two and a half times the average in the rest of the country (£ 568). The area of ??least affordable local authorities outside London is Oxford, where the typical rent account for 55% of median income.

tenants on benefits in these areas are already struggling to find properties for rent in the new location of the limit of housing allocation, implemented in April for new tenants since the beginning next year for existing leases.

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said tenants in many rural areas were also most affected by high rents and low incomes.

found cheaper to rent in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, in North Devon, Dorset and North Herefordshire. In Yorkshire, Bradford and Sheffield are more affordable properties for rent in rural areas of Richmondshire and Ryedale.

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refuge in England showed that 8% of local authorities were affordable to rent, with a median of 50% or more of full-time average wage in the home, 21% were out of reach income equivalent to 40% to 49% of the median home full time to achieve. and 29% were totally inaccessible to the average income of 35% to 39% of the average full-time at home

Campbell Robb, Executive Director of Housing, said: "With the huge differences in access across the country, now there are worrying signs that families tend to be displaced by these beyond the control of the rental market

"We have become sadly familiar with first-time buyers priced housing market, but the impact of affordable rents is more dramatic. No cheaper alternative, ordinary people are forced to cut essential expenses like food and heating, or uproot and move away from jobs, schools and families. "

• Robb said it was time for the government to urgently consider private rental can become a stable and affordable option for families "and not a financial burden that makes parents choose between buying food for their children and pay rent. "
Alicia Barnard, executive director of the Countryside Alliance, said the lack of affordable housing to rent or purchase one of the most pressing problems of rural communities.

"The field has seen its population grow at twice the rate in urban areas, which has pushed up prices, forcing families to make sacrifices to meet the rising costs of rent and prices of young families in the communities where they grew up, "he said.

"If we want our rural communities thrive, while the government must urgently review the rental market in rural areas for rural communities to meet their housing needs."

Melissa Brown, a yoga teacher, part time, and her husband David *, a university professor, was impossible to rent an affordable housing when its owners decided to sell their home current.

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