The seven bills due to go up in April...
1. Water bills
2. Energy bills
3. Council tax
4. Car tax
5. Broadband, phone and TV licence
6. Stamp duty
7. Hidden tax rises - frozen tax thresholds
Will benefits go up to cope? No chance.
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There is a bleak deja vu seeing these front pages again. It is no better than a mob with a pitchfork. Love to every disabled person having to read this bile again. You are worth more than any journalist or minister finding scapegoats for their own gain.
Landlords profit while renters are plunging further into debt to keep up with rising rents and affording other essentials.
By fighting for a fairer housing system, we are fighting for an end to exploitation, displacement, and poverty more broadly.
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When I got the letter a threatening me with eviction from my home of 26 years, I half-collapsed
My son is severely autistic... It’s not easy for him to go anywhere outside our home
🏠 Eileen Futter now has to crowdfund £65,000 to avoid eviction
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Council homes privatised to be sold off for profit. Now left empty while homelessness goes through the roof.
Balfron Tower is London's housing crisis in a nutshell.
We need more public housing, not less.
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We're seeing a self fulfilling cycle of landlords increasing rents because they say the local market rent has gone up, further driving rents up, as @Conor__OShea explained to Shay Kaur Grewal on @BBCRadioLondon last week.
Did you know that regular exercise has a strong correlation to financial wellbeing? 💪
Physical fitness = increased productivity = higher income.
Source: Freeletics
Like Linda, we hope for a future where food banks are no longer needed, because everyone has enough money to survive.
We're working with the food banks in our network to challenge the structural issues that lock people in poverty and fight for change.
Are you with us? 💚
🧵 Millions of people across the UK, like Amanda, Kevin and Matt, are facing hunger.
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, 1 in 7 people in the UK face hunger due to a lack of money.
But it doesn’t have to be this way for anyone.
To contextualise the underspend, £1.9bn would get you around:
19,000 socially rented homes
633 high rises with dangerous cladding remediated
3,800 social housing blocks retrofitted with sprinklers
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'It’s an absolute emergency.'
Shelter’s @pollyn1 on @Channel4News discussing the all too routine experiences of thousands of homeless families like Fahmida’s stuck in damp, dirty and overcrowded temporary accommodation for far too long.
Watch more 👇
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