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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Hilary Osborne

Third of working tenants in England ‘lack savings to pay rent if they lose job’

To let sign outside a house
Shelter said tenants’ savings were ‘all but drying up’. Photograph: David Burton/Alamy

A third of working tenants in England do not have enough savings to pay rent if they lose their job, putting them at risk of losing their home, according to research by the housing charity Shelter.

Record rents and the rising cost of other household bills are putting tenants’ finances under pressure and mean many are unable to set money aside for emergencies.

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