Child Poverty - Question for Short Debate

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 9:03 pm ar 29 Ebrill 2024.

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Photo of Lord Bird Lord Bird Crossbench 9:03, 29 Ebrill 2024

I am not against social housing—I am for social housing—but I want to break out of the situation whereby, if you get into social housing, you tend to fall behind everybody else. On what the Minister is saying about how they are going to change the requirements on social landlords, social landlords should be turning their tenants into people who can have a larger life and can get out of poverty. For most of them, even if they get into work, it is always in the low-wage economy, and they stay there. What are the Government doing about breaking the low-wage economy that many people in poverty find themselves in, who are often in social housing?