The demand is included in a report, Chance of a Lifetime, published by the homelessness charity last week, which claims people growing up in bad housing have up to 25 per cent higher risk of severe ill-health and disability before adulthood.
The report also calls on the Government to set targets to end overcrowding for families with children in the rented sector by 2020 and set out a strategy to meet this demand.
Report author Lisa Harker, the former chair of the Daycare Trust, said: "Children who grow up in bad housing are robbed of their future chances by ill-health, educational underachievement and devastating insecurity."
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