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This report analyses the changing economic positions of tenants in subsidised public housing. It shows how low their incomes are today, how these low incomes interact with higher rents and the housing benefit system to reduce their returns to work and looks at a number of reforms to the benefit system.
Authors
Julian McCrae
Director
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Christopher Giles
Jayne Taylor
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/re.ifs.1996.0051
- ISBN
- 978-1-873357-58-3
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Giles, C et al. (1996). Living with the state: the incomes and work incentives of tenants in the social rented sector. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-state-incomes-and-work-incentives-tenants-social-rented-sector (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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