A commons public accounts committee (PAC) has said that a shortage of affordable housing is disrupting school and family life for tens of thousands of people. The report praised the government’s success in cutting the number of rough sleepers and moving people out of B&B accommodation. But Adam Sampson, the director of homelessness charity Shelter, said: "The public accounts committee is absolutely right to identify the dramatic fall in the number of new social homes being built as being at the root of the record levels of homelessness. Bad housing is ruining the health, education and life chances of a million children. The public accounts committee report shows why it is so important for the chancellor to commit to Shelter's call for the delivery of 20,000 extra social rented homes each year." The Guardian