A new survey has shown that as many as one in seven adults are worried about becoming homeless due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Carried out by homelessness charity Shelter, the research is adding to the increasing concerns that the government is not doing enough to protect renters from losing their homes.
Shelter found that 14 per cent of the 3,500 adults surveyed said the current economic situation had made them more worried about losing their homes – which when extrapolated to the wider population amounts to more than six million people.