A CAMPAIGN has been launched to prevent an avalanche of homelessness this autumn after research has suggested that evictions and repossessions continued throughout the lockdown.

The Big Issue warned of a potential “four-pronged attack” on the public in coming months, with an end to the universal credit uplift and the furlough scheme, an increase in evictions and repossessions, and a predicted increase in the cost of electricity and gas.

A study of official figures by the newspaper, which campaigns against homelessness, found that in the first quarter of 2021, there were 632 mortgage repossessions and rental evictions across Britain.