Council leaders from across England have urged ministers to urgently uprate funding subsidies for temporary accommodation, warning that soaring levels of homelessness threaten to tip many authorities into insolvency.
Local leaders, speaking on Tuesday at an emergency meeting in Westminster, said budgets were being devastated by the exponential cost of keeping vulnerable people off the streets.
They called on the government to raise the “housing benefit subsidy”, which supports councils with the provision of temporary accommodation, in line with inflation.
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