PHILADELPHIA: ‘Lazy stereotypes’ depicting social housing tenants as shirkers are detached from reality and two-thirds of those who can work are in employment, according to a new report.
A study of tenants also found being a migrant or single parent does not help you jump the queue for housing.
The report dispelled the myth that tenants ‘are characterized by high levels of benefit dependency, lone parenthood, long-term unemployment, limited aspiration, or that people’s access to social housing has been easy’.
However, despite most being in part or full time jobs, three quarters were ‘faring no better than “holding steady” financially’, the research found, due to pay levels and hours…