I see the issue as not allowing you to live basicaly without benifits this was never the case when I was a youngster
Rents used to roughly equal a third of incomes that is long gone if your rent is 650 a month for a three bed semi you would need to earn a 1500 a month to pay your bills and stand on your own feet
In my view its the housing benifit paid to private landlords that are the real benifit cheats without it rents would plummet instead it props up a disgraceful economic scarcity to the detriment of us all
