Elderly facing private rented sector ‘time-bomb’

By Hamish Champ2019-07-17T05:00:00

More than half a million retirees living in PRS homes could struggle to pay their rent in 20 years’ time, report says

Rising rents could soon see hundreds of thousands of elderly tenants forced out of their privately rented homes, warns the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Care for Older People.

In a new report the APPG warned pensioner poverty could surge over the next 20 years as rents became unaffordable.

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