IPPR have released research today on the £70M  a year spent supporting out-of-work tenants to rejoin the jobs market.

It is more than half the £130m expected to be spent next year by the government’s flagship Work and Health Programme.

The IPPR said that despite a record employment rate, there was still a high level of unemployment among adults living in housing association properties, with unemployment twice the national average and economic inactivity three times higher.

Here is their report:

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