“Although I am grateful to be under a roof, I do not deny seeing myself with so many debts and expenses, my head wants to explode” Children are being torn away from communities and forced to live in B&Bs as a result of the UK’s worsening rental crisis
, as local authorities across the UK have become increasingly reliant on the private rented sector to house homeless people due to the decline in social housing stock.
Anyolina Diaz De Los Santos and her family became homeless when they were evicted from their home in Orpington, south-east London, in November last year. “[My eldest son] has been in the same school for so long. It has been very sad to see how he tries hard not to let this situation affect his life but he already refuses to make friends,” Ms De Los Santos said.
“Living in private rent, we never thought that the economy would impact our lives in such a way that we had to depend on the help offered by the city council, something that we are not looking for as a family. We want to live in peace and give the best to our children,” she said. Alongside placing families far away from the capital, councils are also having to rely increasingly on B&Bs, with the number of families stuck in this type of accommodation for more than six weeks increasing by a staggering 781 per cent between April 2022 and April 2023.London hasn’t seen this level of homelessness since “Victorian England”.
London Councils is urging the Government to make a number of changes, including increasing Housing Benefit so it covers the cheapest third of rents in a local area, as it used to.
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