The charity predicts that as many as 29,000 under-25s face being homeless this year.
Factors including the end of furlough, a drop in universal credit payments, and the cost of living going up are all cited by the charity for the increases in homeless young people.
The Centrepoint data, which comes from Freedom of Information requests made to local authorities across the UK, shows 29,000 people are set to approach their council this winter because they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
If the charity’s projections are accurate, figures could reach the highest level since 2016, when it started recording these figures.
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