A decent home is a basic human right.

Having a decent, safe place to live is something everyone deserves as a basic human right.

This is the message behind the 'Everyone in' campaign launched by homelessness charity CRISIS. The campaign has been supported by several high-profile figures including actors, Tom Hardy, Emma Thompson and Richard Gere.

More than twenty thousand people from every part of the UK have UK have also shown their support on social media using the hashtag #everybodyin.

Homelessness in the UK has risen by 132% since 2010 with the highest increase in London and the South of England. In 2015/16 local authorities accepted 58,000 families as being homeless, a rise of 34% since 2009/10.

Factors including high private rents, family breakdown and changes to the benefits system have been cited as causing the I crease in homelessness. At the same time the costs incurred by the NHS, councils and public services as they try to deal with the increase have grown massively.

The plan to end homelessness put forward by CRISIS to end homelessness addresses issues including helping at risk stay in their homes, improving tenant's rights and ensuring local authorities have enough funding to offer support.

A statement on the CRISIS website says, ‘ending homelessness doesn't mean no one will ever lose their home again,' but with the right support in place the document impact can be greatly reduced.

North Staffs t Party has given its support to the 'Everyone in' campaign, spokesperson Adam Colclough said:' having access to decent affordable housing is a basic human right, that people are forced to sleep on the streets of a wealthy country is inexcusable. We fully support CRISIS in taking action on this important issue'.

At the 2017 general election the Green Party stood on a manifesto pledging to build more social housing, strengthening tenant's rights and improving funding for council homelessness services.

The CRISIS statement concludes that with the right legislation and funding in place it is possible to stop most people at risk from losing their homes and to bring them in from the cold as quickly as possible if they do.

Details of the CRISIS campaign can be found at: https://www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved/everybody-in/