RAHUL SHARMA DEBT CONNECT IN MANCHESTER, UK,
Thousands of homeless people put up in places like hotels and B&Bs due to coronavirus are still in emergency accommodation.
Charities say there are just weeks to stop them returning to the streets as premises prepare to reopen.
BBC research found three quarters of homeless people in 17 areas are still in temporary accommodation with some already sleeping rough again.
The government said councils must continue to provide safe accommodation.
The BBC's The Next Episode podcast contacted the 25 councils with the highest rough sleeper counts last autumn.
Seventeen of those councils provided comparable data and between them they housed 3,258 homeless people under the Everyone In scheme.
Most of the homeless people were still in that temporary accommodation as of last week but 80 were already back on the streets.
With hotels set to reopen to the public from 4 July, charities say a plan is needed to move thousands of homeless people into alternative accommodation.
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