Residents would pay for the work without state help.

And in the past three years, while 6,757 families found permanent housing with state help, an equal number did not.

Springfield has "a long ways to go," he said, and will need more state help to get there.

For people receiving state help, the cap should be set at between £7,000 to £10,000 a year.

What like my family that have struggled all our lives but are just over the limit to get any state help?

The city has also been slow to enlist state help on another front.

It might also include more state help in opening up foreign markets.

Even if both couples received no state help at all, I would say they are selfish.

This means someone who does not receive state help and gets 10 hours of support a week pays around £7,015 per year.

The second, with no expectation of state help, would have meant a 21.8 percent increase.