Housing in the West Midlands has reached crisis point - and it’s the region’s poorest children who suffer the most.

Shelter estimates that more than 150,000 children are trapped in bad housing - ruining their life chances.

The chronic shortage of affordable housing in Britain is why Shelter is urgently calling on the Government to fund an extra 20,000 social rented homes a year (1,330 in the West Midlands) in a bid to end to the housing crisis. (more…)

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