Over 90,000 live in temporary housing

Over 90,000 households live in temporary accommodation in the UK with one in seven children living in housing dubbed "poor", according to lobbying group Shelter.

The charity has found that the lack of affordable housing in this country is so severe that it has had to step in to ask the government to provide some 20,000 new homes as a "bare minimum" of a solution to this problem.

Mark Thomas, head of policy at Shelter, said: "Without the investment in the new homes that we are asking for we are just not going to be able to make headway in terms of dealing with that problem."

He added that the investment asked from the government still won''t completely solve the problem but that another solution might.

Mr Thomas wants two government agencies - namely the English Partnership and the Housing Corporation - to merge into a single agency which could co-ordinate social housing more efficiently and making land available for potential new builds.


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