A London borough facing legal action for leaving homeless families in B&Bs for over the statutory six-week period has called on the Government to rethink housing benefit caps.
Last week, the BBC's Newsnight revealed how Croydon Council had spent more than £1.5m on one hotel alone this year to accommodate homeless families. The programme revealed how one housing lawyer is threatening it with legal action in a bid to force it to move families out of overcrowded and dangerous B&Bs.
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