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English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families

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Manchester city council spent the most on landlord incentives to house homeless families: £3.3m in 2024-25. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Councils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to house homeless families, with campaigners describing it as a “senseless waste of public money”. Read More

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