STARTLING new figures suggest more people are being driven to the streets by the cost-of-living crisis, with rough sleeping rising by a fifth in London. 

Between April and September, there were 5,712 people sleeping on the capital’s streets — an increase of 21 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the Combined Homelessness and Information Network.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an immediate rent freeze, as he warned of a “revolving door of people ending up homeless” due to the escalating cost-of-living crisis.