02 March 2026

Response to Rough Sleeping Snapshot 2026

The latest national rough sleeping figures confirm a trend that frontline organisations like ours have been witnessing for some time: homelessness in England is rising at a pace that should concern us all. The Government’s autumn 2025 snapshot shows 4,793 people sleeping rough on a single night, the highest number ever recorded and a further increase on last year. Alongside this, statutory homelessness data shows record numbers of households in temporary accommodation, signalling a system under severe pressure.

In Cambridgeshire, the picture is no less stark, local data indicates that around 40 people are sleeping rough in Cambridge on any...