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Last year almost 100,000 households were living in temporary accommodation. that's the highest level since 2004 and very close to record levels. and it includes over 125,000 children. so what's going on? well, the government is trying. it's spending £2 billion tackling all forms of homelessness, including rough sleeping, and it's put a range of initiatives in place. but it's facing several significant headwinds. there simply aren't enough affordable homes because successive governments haven't built enough. and housing benefits levels have been frozen for three years, meaning they're falling ...

No, not this time. some of the others using the service are noticeably embarrassed, driven here by cost of living pressures. we've seen people who have never been homeless before. people that have lost their employment and accommodation, purely because of rent increases. it's really frightening for those people that have never experienced rough sleeping before. many others are on the precipice of rough sleeping. with soaring rents, these caravans, for instance, are all some delivery drivers can afford. for phil, this van is home. he would like a flat, but feels it is beyond him. there is a wee...

Housing benefit is frozen, there's more people unable to find somewhere else to live. and because we still have a system in this country where our answer to row sleeping is to put people into hostels or night shelters or other forms of homelessness. there have been big effort over the last few years to deal with the issue but we haven't seen the joinder policy response we need. seen the “oinder policy response we need. ~ . seen the “oinder policy response we need. . ., ., ,. ~' seen the “oinder policy response we need. . ., ., ,., ~ , seen the “oinder policy response we need. . ., ., ~...

Epsom and Ewell Borough council is set to build key temporary accommodation for families at risk of homelessness with the help of levelling up…

A proactive approach to helping rough sleepers in Great Yarmouth could see new emergency accommodation in the town.