Cost of living crisis helps push more people on to the streets in blow to government promise to end rough sleeping
Rough sleeping in England rose last year for the first time in half a decade, official figures show, as the cost of living crisis helped push more people on to the streets.
An estimated 3,069 people spent the night sleeping rough in 2022, an annual increase of 26%, the biggest year-on-year rise since 2015 and 74% higher than 2010 – the year these statistics were first collected.
