There'Â’s been a 400 per cent increase in the number of people seeking help from Threshold because of rent increases.

The housing charitiesÂ’ latest annual report shows more than 15 hundred people needed advice over rent reviews in 2014.

It comes as the Simon Community reveals a 20 per cent rise in people coming to them for help, with 5 thousand people stuck in emergency accommodation for Christmas.

Helen Vaughan reports:

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