Over 70 per cent of Conservative council leaders who responded to a new poll warn that current Government investment will not deliver enough low-cost rented homes in their area.
The majority of local councils in England are forced to place more and more people in unstable temporary accommodation, a new state-of-the-nation report from Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says nearly 600 additional low-cost rented homes need to be built every week in order to fix the broken housing market and help low incomes families escape poverty.
More than 150,000 of the most affordable rented homes have been lost across England in just five years, according to analysis from the Chartered Institute of Housing.
A survey of councils by the Local Government Association found that 96 per cent of repsondents thought homelessness would increase if the freeze on the Local Housing Allowance was not lifted.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says reforms in the pipeline mean that if rents continue to rise, support for housing costs will fall further and further behind the cost of housing.
One in eleven people in Britain fear they will not be able to afford their rent or mortgage at the end of this month, according to new research from Shelter.