The publication of two high-profile reports on the dire state of housing in the UK within the first three weeks of 2019 felt fittingly urgent. The reports, published by housing charity Shelter and London Labour assembly member Tom Copley, call for a massive social housing building drive and an end to the right-to-buy scheme respectively. For anyone who has stepped through the centre of any UK town or city over the last couple of years, the critical necessity of these reports will come as no surprise. That said, the latest homelessness statistics for the UK still bear repeating: in autumn 2018, there was an average of 4,677 people sleeping rough every night, a 165% increase from the total in 2010 when the coalition government came to power.
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