The judgement means families made homeless due to the inability to pay the rent because of cuts to housing related benefits cannot be said to be intentionally homeless.
Frank Field says the ongoing administrative failures of Universal Credit are biting into incomes already cut, frozen, sanctioned and capped to below basic living costs.
Parents are struggling to afford basics like feeding and clothing their children following Government funding cuts which have seen crisis support scaled back, says the Children's Society.
Even the lowest private rents are now out of reach for people on low incomes, putting thousands at increased risk of homelessness, says the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Businesses based in the railway arches about to be sold off by Network Rail contribute over £725 million to the UK economy every year, according to fresh research by the New Economics Foundation.
Up to a million workers under 25 are losing as much as £3,513 a year because they are not entitled to the National Living Wage, according to Young Women’s Trust,