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Barnet boss: Include housing costs in deprivation measure

Housing costs should be included in the updated English indices of deprivation, a council chief executive has urged.

Housing costs (c) Andrii Yalanskyi

Housing costs should be included in the updated English indices of deprivation, a council chief executive has urged.

The official measures used in England to quantify deprivation at a neighbourhood level do not directly include housing costs like rent or mortgage payments in their calculation.

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