Rising numbers of people who are homeless are being placed in bed and breakfasts due to a severe shortage of social housing, council leaders have warned.
New analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) revealed this was forcing councils to spend more than five times as much money on accommodation as they were a decade ago.
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