research was published in 2018 by shelter analysing government data. it indicated that all forms of homelessness had increased since 2010 and that the number of households living in temporary accommodation had risen to more than 79,000. by 2017 over 33,000 families living in temporary accommodation were working, a proposition that had increased from 44% in 2013 to 55% in 2017. shelter attributed this to a combination of higher rents, the freeze on housing benefits and the shortage of social housing.