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Rough sleeping is just the tip of the iceberg. The scale of the housing emergency is much larger. 3,898 people are sleeping on the streets on a typical night. 279,400 people are homeless in temporary accommodation. An unrecorded number of people are sofa-surfing, living in hostels or otherwise ‘hidden’ from homelessness statistics. Almost 3 million private renters are spending more than 50% of their income on rent. This is shocking. We need real change. Until housing justice becomes a reality, w