More than 320,000 people are recorded this year as homeless in Britain, analysis from housing charity Shelter shows.
The figures show that the number of homeless people in the UK is soaring by a rate of more than 1,000 a month.
This amounts to a year-on-year increase of 13,000, a 4% rise, despite government pledges to tackle the crisis. The estimate suggests that nationally one in 200 people are homeless.
The charity warns that despite repeated Government pledges to fight the issue, a mix of unaffordable rents, frozen housing benefits and a “severe” shortage of social housing are to blame for the deepening crisis.
Cities paint a dire picture, with one in every 52 people – nearly 170,000 – in London without a home.
In Brighton, the figure is 1in 67, while in Birmingham it is 1 in 73, and 1 in 135 in Manchester.
In Scotland, 43,000 people, including children, became homeless in 2017, with on average, someone losing their home…