Cash-strapped councils are resorting to handing out tents to people made homeless by the cost of living crisis.
Shaun Davies, chair of the Local Government Association, said the economic situation was fuelling extra demand for temporary accommodation, and councils were unable to cope.
“We are seeing an exodus of people in the private rented sector who are coming to councils for support,” he told Times Radio.
“There’s no council in the country that has an empty stock of temporary accommodation.”
