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This means that thousands of homeless people, put up in places like hotels and B&Bs due to coronavirus, are still in emergency accommodation. Now, charities are warning that there are just weeks to stop them returning to the streets as premises, including hotels, prepare to reopen on 4 July.
The BBC's The Next Episode podcast contacted the 25 councils with the highest rough sleeper counts last autumn. Seventeen of those councils provided comparable data and between them they housed 3,258 homeless people under the Everyone In scheme.
Most of the homeless people were still in that temporary accommodation as of last week but 80 were already back on the streets. Meanwhile, 230 had already been found a permanent home.
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