A small example - I found out that the house next door but one, is being rented out at 1K a month. This is Newhaven, not Brighton, & it's a 3 bedroom terrace. If we hadn't got a mortgage, we wouldn't be able to afford our own house now. Rents have more than doubled, but according to Big Gully...
It's been admitted that a lot of people using food banks is down to red tape & delays in paying benefits. Anyone who has had to deal with the benefits system knows how that can happen.