London accounts for over half of all homeless families in England - more than 60,000 families.
Yet in the last ten years, more than 300,000 new housing units have been. This is more than twice the increase in the number of households in London, in the same period.
If we are adding more homes than households, why has homelessness increased? And what do London’s hundreds of thousands of empty homes tell us about this?
This report by Action on Empty Homes looks at London's housing crisis through the perspective of the large number of empty homes in the city.
It provides a number of ideas for change, including empowering local councils with stronger powers to repurpose empty homes for social housing, and prioritising retrofitting of existing empty properties.