1.   Local authorities have a statutory duty to house homeless families.

2.   The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.

3.   They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families, and substance misusers.

4.   They made thousands of families homeless without scruple.

5.   Mum is routing out all our spare clothes to give to homeless families.

6.   Housing benefit is over budget, partly because of the rise in the number of homeless families having to be expensively bed-and-breakfasted.

7.   A new scheme has been launched to put homeless families into private houses that would otherwise lie empty.