Readers' blog: Housing crisis caused by reliance on private sector

The dramatic and shocking increase in child and family homelessness was the entirely predictable consequence of a disastrous, failing government policy of relying on the private sector to manage the housing crisis.

I am dealing with a flood of families and children, many of them with special needs, living in unsuitable emergency accommodation or facing evictions, and all that they are being told is to go and find HAP tenancies in the private sector.