Newsbrief: Doubtful benefit
Tuesday 07 June 1994 23:02 BST
CommentsTower Hamlets has suspended a policy which meant many homeless families had to take private sector housing outside the borough. The council feared people were becoming too dependent on housing benefit to meet high rents.
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