I greatly sympathise with Jill Sayers and her daughter's predicament (Letters, May 23). The short-term notice tenants are given (I was given five weeks) along with the stigma of DSS, as well as moving costs, are the combined dilemmas that hit only low-income people - the people who need the most help.
Once more the poor are being forced to subsidise the greed of the wealthy.
This has always been the case in the rented sector. However, with the questionable massive increases in property in the South East the problem has grown with hardly anyone addressing it.
Even if you manage to find a home the rent increases are not reflected in housing benefit payments, meaning benefits that should go on food must go on rent. Hence a stressful situation is made almost impossible. This hits some working people too, who are forced out of homes due to impossible rent increases.
I too hope that Jill Sayers' daughter receives her break.
-Jeanne James, Brunswick Square, Hove
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