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Ghetto warning over changes to housing benefit

HOUSING benefit changes will pit families against each other, and could result in ghetto-isation and homelessness, according to one of the most detailed studies to date of their impact in Scotland.

A study by the Scottish Local Government Forum Against Poverty and Rights Advice Scotland, to be published today, will warn of a coming crisis, disputing the suggestion that the changes will only have a major impact in London.