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Morning Briefing: low-income households more vulnerable to recession than before last financial crash

News05.08.1910.45 AM by Jack Simpson

Low-income households in Britain are more vulnerable to recession than they were before the last financial crisis, The Guardian has written this morning

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The paper follows up on a report by thinktank Resolution Foundation which warns that a decade of weak wage growth has left the poorest UK households less prepared for another downturn.

The report also warned that the gradual mishandling of the benefits system under the policy of austerity has left people without the same degree of support.

The warning comes ahead of official growth figures due this Friday, which are expected to show that the British economy has stalled or slid into contraction for the first time since 2012.

The BBC reveals that an expert working with a group investigating contamination from the Grenfell Tower fire has resigned.

The piece, which came from the Local Democracy Reporting Service, revealed that Professor Anna Stec, who was part of the Scientific Advisory Group, resigned after she said the government had “nothing in place” to assess environmental and health risks.

Professor Stec published a report in March in which she had found that toxic chemical levels are “higher than normal” around Grenfell.

In her resignation letter, she said there were still a significant number of people suffering physically and mentally following the Grenfell Tower fire and there wasn’t anything in place to properly evaluate all adverse health effects of the fire.

The government said in its response that its approach had been “scientifically rigorous”.

The BBC runs an analysis today about the new law that came into effect in June that put a ban on letting agents charging upfront fees for services such as viewings and credit checks. The investigation from the BBC found that despite the ban being put in place, a number of renters were still being charged fees.

The piece also revealed that a number of renters are still confused about the ban, with the number of enquiries to Citizens Advice about tenant fees rising by 54% to 430 in the month after the law came in.

The BBC also runs a story about one landlord who was fined £47,000 after it was found that 11 tenants were crammed into a house with just one toilet.

Manchester City Council officers visited the property in Gorton and raised a number of safety concerns, including the lack of toilet facilities and the size of some of the rooms. Following the discovery of the tenants, the building owner has now taken back control of the building from the landlord.

In local news, Nottinghamshire Live has carried out an analysis which reveals that more than a third of all homelessness cases in the city were from single women with children.

The statistics revealed that out of 2,415 households accepted as homeless in the last six months of 2018, 743 were single women with children.

A plan for more than 100,000 in the West of England has been criticised by government planning inspectors, the BBC reports.

The West of England Joint Spatial Plan sets out the long-term housing and infrastructure needs of the region to 2036.

However, government planning inspectors have criticised the plan as part of a public examination, saying it was not “robust, consistent or objective”.

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