The Joseph Rowntree Foundation predicted 1.5 million extra 18- to 30-year-olds will be priced out of buying their own homes within eight years, flooding the rental market.
Homelessness among the under-25s will rise to 81,000 it calculated - with an extra 500,000 young people also forced to live with their parents well into their 30s.
Private landlords who provide lower-rent, longer-term tenancies for vulnerable young people and families should get tax breaks to help avert a looming "homelessness disaster", the thinktank said.
Without urgent action to improve the rental market and build more properties, up to 400,000 risked being "
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