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New analysis from the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how nearly 600 additional low-cost rented homes need to be built every week in order to fix the broken housing market and help low-income families escape poverty.

Incomes of low earners are set to stagnate for at least another three years, leading to record levels of inequality, a new study has found. While household incomes for richer people will begin to rise next year, those on middle and low incomes will not see an increase until at least 2020, the Resolution Foundation think tank said. It means income inequality is likely to rise for the first time since the 1980s and hit record highs during the early 2020s, having fallen in recent years. The Resolution Foundation said government benefit cuts were largely to blame.

Low and middle income households face three years of stagnating living standards lasting until 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation’s annual living standards report.The think tank reports that high inflation following the referendum has caused the return of falling real pay and deepened cuts to working age benefits, meaning typical household incomes are projected to have fallen marginally this financial year (2017-18).

The average share of income that Britain’s families spend on housing has trebled over the last 50 years, with young people having to make do with longer commutes and smaller rented accommodation, according to a new report.

A report says 30-year-olds are feeling the sharp end of Britain's housing crisis, with costs soaring.

Report backed by business leaders says gains from growth are going largely into profits for corporations rather than wages

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the rich-poor divide in parts of the UK is destabilising.

The Archbishop of Canterbury calls for "fundamental reform" as the gap between the richest and poorest in society widens.

Eight other areas have been shown to have faster growing attainment gaps

Rising inflation is exacerbating benefits cuts, says Child Poverty Action Group, making it harder for parents to make ends meet

Resolution Foundation warns of rising inequality amid cuts to working-age benefits

This isn’t quite right, but wage growth is at its lowest level in peacetime since the Napoleonic Wars.

Millennials are being forced to live in smaller spaces, commute for longer, and wait on average until their 40s to buy a house.

Young people are paying more to live in less space than previous generations, a think-tank says.

David Willetts warns of ‘housing catastrophe’ as he launches study that lays bare intergenerational inequality

Britain’s economic model is “broken” and failing to generate rising prosperity for most of the UK population, according to a major new report. The IPPR’s Commission on Economic Justice argues in its interim publication that the UK economy requires a structural overhaul on the scale of the founding of the welfare state by Labour in the 1940s and the Thatcher rollback of the state in the 1980s.

IPPR Commission demands massive reform.

A major report warns cash is going into company profits rather than workers' wages

Capitalism in Britain is broken and needs urgent reform because it is leaving young people worse off than their parents, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

The Northern Powerhouse agenda is among a raft of government policies spanning the last two decades that have failed to tackle the country’s social mobility problem, a new report has found.

Low-income parents are increasingly struggling to meet even the basic cost of raising children amid rising inflation, falling real wages and frozen benefits, according to new research.