Ruby is a Policy Adviser at JRF, working across our care, family and relationships and housing policy work. Ruby holds expertise in issues relating to children and families, having previously worked at the National Children's Bureau where she led their early education and child poverty policy work. Ruby has a Masters in the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights from University College London.
Email: ruby.blower@jrf.org.uk
This first report from our Ending the Rent Squeeze programme shows combining rent control and tax reform is an impactful, viable way of bringing down rent costs.
In the past 2 years, rents in the UK have risen by an average of nearly 8%. Here we look at different dimensions of rent-affordability pressure faced by tenants in the private rented sector.