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A SHOCKING rise in homelessness will be on the Tories’ political tombstone, Labour blasted yesterday after the publication of a damning National Audit Office report.
Auditors found that Tory and Lib Dem benefit cuts have helped lead to a doubling in the number of people sleeping rough since 2010. Over 4,100 rough sleepers were recorded last autumn — a 134 per cent rise from 2010.
And there has been a 60 per cent rise in the number of families made homeless and forced into temporary accommodation — including more than 120,000 children — the auditors said.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON