. • Our findings included: (i) social housing tenants draw at least £250 million less per year in benefits than they would renting privately and are still better off, while more than 50,000 people are kept out of poverty by the low housing costs they see through social housing (ii) funded childcare frees up families to boost their earnings, which in turn boost the public finances – 600 free hours lifted over 10,000 adults and children out of poverty, and the expansion to 1,140 hours will have an even bigger impact (iii) (iii) simply ensuring people who we model to be eligible for universal credit...