HOUSING

Smarter spend will get Britain building again

Stephen Muers says policymakers must ‘spend smarter’ to tackle the temporary housing crisis, and he proposes a solution to the funding gap.

The temporary accommodation response to homelessness is broken.

Government figures show that over 100,000 households including over 130,000 children are in temporary accommodation, the highest figure since records began.

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