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Cost of living: ‘Councils have nowhere to put people’

Sky News has exclusively seen figures illustrating the rapidly growing gap between benefits and rising rental costs.

The number of properties affordable to people on housing benefits has fallen by a third in the past five months, with only 8% of houses in the affordable housing range.

Adele Robinson speaks to a single, working mother who lives in “emergency accommodation” with her son.

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