The Government should plough £100m into preventing homelessness over a decade as part of a wide-ranging move away from the current reactive system, a paper has urged. 

Local authority spending on homelessness services has more than doubled in 14 years – from £1.3bn in 2010-11 to £3.1bn in 2023-24 – and the number of people living in temporary accommodation has reached a record 127,890 households, an increase of 13.6% on the previous year.