Welfare Reform - A Return to Dickensian shared housing conditions?

200 years separate the birth of Charles Dickens and the Welfare Reform Bill. But are we heading back to a Dickensian future for those most affected by Welfare Reform, asks Peter Hall in this article published in The Guardian.

Charles Dickens wrote of housing poverty. Are we returning to a Victorian era of shared accomodation? Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature