This year it had placed 180 families in private rentals or state houses.

They may even act as guarantors for private rentals if necessary.

All three providers agreed wraparound services were key to a family succeeding in private rentals.

Thousands of people living in cold, damp private rentals may never get their homes insulated.

We've applied for private rentals but haven't heard back.

Housing advocacy groups are worried about plans to shift more State House tenants into private rentals.

Another 2500 exited the waitlist for reasons including moving into private rentals or no longer being eligible.

Of those, 29 families have shifted into private rentals - and three have purchased their own homes.

Since then I've lived in housing association properties, dodgy sublets, student halls, shared houses and dilapidated private rentals.

Emergency housing providers say a boost to the accommodation supplement last month was not enough to make private rentals affordable.

The remaining battle-scarred duplexes that pock-mark the vast empty expanse of Banks Street and Discovery Place are mostly private rentals.

Bartlett felt the bigger picture was that there just wasn't enough social housing in London, while private rentals were too expensive.

Of that figure at least 42 tenants and their families chose to move out of the suburb or into private rentals.

Many ITs do not offer on-campus accommodation but are located near student villages or work with students to source other private rentals.

During the phone call, he said the ministry advised him to check private rentals and let it know what the rent would be.

The report sparked calls for a housing warrant of fitness for both state and private rentals, but that idea was dismissed by the government.