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LONDON, July 24 (Xinhua) – The number of "homeless" families has exploded in Britain in the past five years, Shelter, a housing charity,
said. have shown that more than half of the families housed in temporary housing after being accepted as homeless by their local authority are working.
About 33,000 families now work without a home, an increase of 73% from 19,000 families in 2013.
The charity stated that homeless people worked "every possible hour To earn a decent living.
They are among thousands of households working in low-paid, part-time or contract jobs that are no longer able to pay rents. They are forced to live in poor and overcrowded temporary housing, according to Shelter
. A mixture of expensive private rents, freeze of housing benefits and chronic shortage of social housing is attributed to the problem [19]. 659002] Polly Neate, Executive Director of Shelter, said, "The government needs to urgently develop a new social housing plan that provides the truly affordable homes we desperately need."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing Housing, The local government said the government was investing 1.2 billion pounds (157.4 billion dollars) to help the homeless.
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